Special Publication (NIST SP)

FIPS 140-3 Derived Test Requirements (DTR):CMVP Validation Authority Updates to ISO/IEC 24759

March 20, 2020

Author(s)

Kim B. Schaffer

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-140 specifies the Derived Test Requirements (DTR) for Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3. SP 800-140...

CMVP Approved Non-Invasive Attack Mitigation Test Metrics: CMVP Validation Authority Updates to ISO/IEC 24759:2017

March 20, 2020

Author(s)

Kim B. Schaffer

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-140F replaces the approved non-invasive attack mitigation test metric requirements of ISO/IEC 19790 Annex F. As a validation...

CMVP Approved Authentication Mechanisms: CMVP Validation Authority Requirements for ISO/IEC 19790:2012 Annex E and ISO/IEC 24759:2017

March 20, 2020

Author(s)

Kim B. Schaffer

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-140E replaces the approved authentication mechanism requirements of ISO/IEC 19790 Annex E. As a validation authority, the...

CMVP Approved Sensitive Security Parameter Generation and Establishment Methods: CMVP Validation Authority Updates to ISO/IEC 24759:2017(E)

March 20, 2020

Author(s)

Kim B. Schaffer

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-140D replaces the approved sensitive security parameter generation and establishment methods requirements of ISO/IEC 19790...

CMVP Security Policy Requirements: CMVP Validation Authority Updates to ISO/IEC 24759 and ISO/IEC 19790 Annex B

March 20, 2020

Author(s)

Kim B. Schaffer

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-140B is to be used in conjunction with ISO/IEC 19790 Annex B and ISO/IEC 24759 6.14. The special publication modifies only...

CMVP Documentation Requirements:CMVP Validation Authority Updates to ISO/IEC 24759

March 20, 2020

Author(s)

Kim B. Schaffer

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-140A modifies the vendor documentation requirements of ISO/IEC 19790 Annex A. As a validation authority, the Cryptographic...

CMVP Approved Security Functions: CMVP Validation Authority Updates to ISO/IEC 24759

March 20, 2020

Author(s)

Kim B. Schaffer

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-140C replaces the approved security functions of ISO/IEC 19790 Annex C. As a validation authority, the Cryptographic Module...

Annual Report 2018: NIST/ITL Cybersecurity Program

March 13, 2020

Author(s)

Patrick D. O'Reilly, Kristina G. Rigopoulos, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte

Title III of the E-Government Act of 2002, entitled the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, requires NIST to prepare an annual public...

SI Base Units Relationships Poster

March 3, 2020

Author(s)

Eite Tiesinga, Kristen A. Dill, David B. Newell

This publication is a colorful poster illustrating the relationships of the International System of Units (SI) derived units with special names and symbols and...

Digital Identity Guidelines [includes updates as of 03-02-2020]

March 2, 2020

Author(s)

Paul A. Grassi, Michael E. Garcia, James L. Fenton

These guidelines provide technical requirements for federal agencies implementing digital identity services and are not intended to constrain the development or...

Digital Identity Guidelines: Federation and Assertions [includes updates as of 03-02-2020]

March 2, 2020

Author(s)

Paul A. Grassi, Justin P. Richer, Sarah K. Squire, James L. Fenton, Ellen M. Nadeau, Naomi Lefkovitz, Jamie M. Danker, Yee-Yin Choong, Kristen Greene, Mary Theofanos

This document and its companion documents, SP 800-63, SP 800-63A, and SP 800-63B, provide technical and procedural guidelines to agencies for the implementation...

Digital Identity Guidelines: Authentication and Lifecycle Management [includes updates as of 03-02- 2020]

March 2, 2020

Author(s)

Paul A. Grassi, James L. Fenton, Elaine M. Newton, Ray Perlner, Andrew Regenscheid, William E. Burr, Justin P. Richer, Naomi Lefkovitz, Jamie M. Danker, Yee-Yin Choong, Kristen K. Greene, Mary Theofanos

These guidelines provide technical requirements for federal agencies implementing digital identity services and are not intended to constrain the development or...

Digital Identity Guidelines: Enrollment and Identity Proofing [includes updates as of 03-02-2020]

March 2, 2020

Author(s)

Paul A. Grassi, James L. Fenton, Naomi Lefkovitz, Jamie M. Danker, Yee-Yin Choong, Kristen K. Greene, Mary Theofanos

These guidelines provide technical requirements for federal agencies implementing digital identity services and are not intended to constrain the development or...

Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations

February 21, 2020

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross, Victoria Y. Pillitteri, Kelley L. Dempsey, Mark Riddle, Gary Guissanie

The protection of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) resident in nonfederal systems and organizations is of paramount importance to federal agencies and...

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 2925: Recombinant Human Serum Albumin Solution (Primary Reference Calibrator for Urine Albumin) (Frozen)

February 19, 2020

Author(s)

Ashley B. Green, David M. Bunk, Nien F. Zhang, Wendell Alejo

This Standard Reference Material (SRM) is intended primarily for use in the preparation of calibration solutions for a candidate reference measurement procedure...

The NIST Cloud Federation Reference Architecture

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Robert B. Bohn, Craig A. Lee, Martial Michel

This document presents the NIST Federated Cloud Reference Architecture model. This actor/role- based model used the guiding principles of the NIST Cloud...

CELL-FREE (Comparable Engineered Living Lysates for Research Education and Entrepreneurship) Workshop Report

February 12, 2020

Author(s)

Elizabeth Strychalski, Eugenia Romantseva

The CELL-FREE Workshop sought to identify and prioritize actionable steps towards more reproducible and comparable cell-free systems for practical applications...

Assessing the Predictive Capability for Real-Scale Residential Upholstered Furniture Mock-Up Fires using Cone Calorimeter Measurements. Part 1: Real-Scale Experiments

February 10, 2020

Author(s)

William M. Pitts, Martin Werrel, Marco G. Fernandez, Mary A. Long, Evan A. Eisenberg, James J. Filliben, Cory D. Runyon

This is the first of three reports describing a study designed to assess the feasibility of utilizing small-scale measurements in a cone calorimeter as inputs...

Workshop on Applied Category Theory: Bridging Theory and Practice

February 7, 2020

Author(s)

Spencer J. Breiner, Blake S. Pollard, Eswaran Subrahmanian

This report presents the summary of a workshop held at NIST on March 15-16, 2018 on the topic of applied category theory (ACT). The meeting had two main goals:...

2019 Global City Teams Challenge: Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge Expo

January 31, 2020

Author(s)

Sokwoo Rhee

This report highlights the GCTC/SC3 Expo event held on July 11-12, 2019 to foster discussion of and collaboration to address the cybersecurity and privacy...

NIST Special Publication 2100-03: Proceedings of the International Conference on Atom-Probe Tomography and Microscopy (APT&M 2018)

December 23, 2019

Author(s)

Keith Knipling, Frederick Meisenkothen, Eric B. Steel

The biennial International Field Emission Symposium (IFES), recently renamed Atom Probe Tomography and Microscopy (APT&M), has been in existence since 1952. The...

Research Needs Concerning the Performance of Fiber Reinforced (FR) Composites Retrofit Systems for Buildings and Infrastructure

December 20, 2019

Author(s)

David Goodwin, Siamak Sattar, Jazalyn Dukes, Jae H. Kim, Li Piin Sung, Chiara C. Ferraris

Resilient Interdomain Traffic Exchange: BGP Security and DDos Mitigation

December 17, 2019

Author(s)

Kotikalapudi Sriram, Douglas C. Montgomery

In recent years, numerous routing control plane anomalies, such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) prefix hijacking and route leaks, have resulted in denial-of...

Economics of Interoperability in the Context of Smart Grid Architectures

December 16, 2019

Author(s)

Cheyney O'Fallon, Avi Gopstein

Technological change in the electric power sector has progressed rapidly and there now is need for the development and evaluation of new smart grid...

Election Results Common Data Format Specification Revision 2.0

December 3, 2019

Author(s)

John P. Wack

This publication describes an election results common data format specification for pre-election setup information and post-election results reporting. It...

2019 NCNR Annual Report

December 1, 2019

Author(s)

Steven R. Kline

Developing Cyber Resilient Systems: A Systems Security Engineering Approach

November 27, 2019

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross, Victoria Y. Pillitteri, Richard Graubart, Deborah Bodeau, Rosalie McQuaid

This publication is used in conjunction with ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2015, Systems and software engineering--Systems life cycle processes, NIST Special Publication...

Cast Vote Records Common Data Format Specification Version 1.0

November 19, 2019

Author(s)

John P. Wack

This document is a specification for a common data format for cast vote records (CVR) produced by vote-capture devices such as ballot scanners. It supports the...

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 2, Big Data Taxonomies

November 18, 2019

Author(s)

Wo L. Chang, Nancy Grady

Big Data is a term used to describe the large amount of data in the networked, digitized, sensor-laden, information-driven world. While opportunities exist with...

Voter Records Interchange Common Data Format Specification Version 1.0

November 14, 2019

Author(s)

John P. Wack

This document presents a specification for voter records data interchange related to voter registration, i.e., registration requests from online voter...