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Special Publication (NIST SP)

Guide Brief 1 - Characterize the Population

Author(s)
Community Resilience Program NIST
This Guide Brief provides additional rationale and guidance regarding the first part of Step 2 in the Guide, “Characterize social functions and dependencies”

Trustworthy Email

Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Simson L. Garfinkel, J. S. Nightingale, Scott W. Rose
This document gives recommendations and guidelines for enhancing trust in email. The primary audience includes enterprise email administrators, information

Computer Security Division 2015 Annual Report

Author(s)
Patrick D. O'Reilly, Gregory A. Witte, Larry Feldman
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

Networks of 'Things'

Author(s)
Jeffrey M. Voas
System primitives allow formalisms, reasoning, simulations, and reliability and security risk-tradeoffs to be formulated and argued. In this work, five core

Derived PIV Application and Data Model Test Guidelines

Author(s)
David Cooper, Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Nabil Ghadiali, Jason Mohler, Steven Brady
NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-157 contains technical guidelines for the implementation of standards-based, secure, reliable, interoperable Public Key

Representation of PIV Chain-of-Trust for Import and Export

Author(s)
Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Ketan L. Mehta, Jason Mohler, Stephen Skordinski, Steven Brady
This document provides a common XML-based data representation of a chain-of-trust record to facilitate the exchange of PIV Card enrollment data. The exchanged

SRM 1967a: High-Purity Platinum Thermoelement

Author(s)
Karen M. Garrity, Weston L. Tew, Dean C. Ripple
Consisting of a 1 m long piece of 0.5 mm diameter platinum wire, SRM 1967a meets the requirements for a thermoelectric reference material for temperatures from

Election Results Common Data Format Specification

Author(s)
John P. Wack, Kim Brace, Samuel Dana, Herb Deutsch, John Dziurlaj, Ian Piper, Don Rehill, Richard M. Rivello, Sarah Whitt
This publication describes an election results common data format specification for pre-election setup information and post-election results reporting. It
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