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Special Publication (NIST SP)

PIV Card Application and Middleware Interface Test Guidelines (SP 800-73-4 compliance)

April 13, 2016

Author(s)

David Cooper, Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Jason Mohler

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-73 contains the technical specifications to interface with the smart card to retrieve and use the Personal Identity...

Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Methods for Format-Preserving Encryption

March 29, 2016

Author(s)

Morris Dworkin

This Recommendation specifies two methods, called FF1 and FF3, for format-preserving encryption. Both of these methods are modes of operation for an underlying...

SRM 1967a: High-Purity Platinum Thermoelement

March 9, 2016

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...

Secure Virtual Network Configuration for Virtual Machine (VM) Protection

March 7, 2016

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli

Virtual Machines (VMs) are key resources to be protected since they are the compute engines hosting mission-critical applications. Since VMs are end-nodes of a...

Economics of Community Disaster Resilience Workshop Proceedings

March 1, 2016

Author(s)

Bilal Ayyub, Robert E. Chapman, Gearald Galloway, Richard Wright

This report documents the effort launched by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop, organize, and convene a workshop on the...

Interfaces for Personal Identity Verification [including updates as of 02-08-2016]

February 11, 2016

Author(s)

David Cooper, Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ketan Mehta, Salvatore Francomacaro, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Jason Mohler

[Superseded by SP 800-73pt1-5 (July 2024): https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=957973 SP 800-73pt2-5 (July 2024): https://tsapps.nist.gov...

Election Results Common Data Format Specification

February 9, 2016

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...

Energy and Economic Implications of Solar Photovoltaic Performance Degradation

February 5, 2016

Author(s)

Joshua Kneifel, David Webb, Eric G. O'Rear

Recommendation for Key Management, Part 1: General

January 28, 2016

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker

This Recommendation provides cryptographic key management guidance. It consists of three parts. Part 1 provides general guidance and best practices for the...

Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Information Systems and Organizations [including updates as of 01-14-2016]

January 21, 2016

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross, Kelley L. Dempsey, Patrick Viscuso, Mark Riddle, Gary Guissanie

[Superseded by SP 800-171 Rev. 1 (December 2016): https://www.nist.gov/publications/protecting- controlled-unclassified-information-nonfederal-systems-and...

Strategies for scanning electron microscopy sample preparation and characterization of multiwall carbon nanotube polymer composites

January 20, 2016

Author(s)

Andras Vladar

This guideline presents methods for the preparation and investigation of samples of multiwall carbon nanotube-polymer composites by scanning electron microscopy...

Measurement Challenges and Metrology for Monitoring CO2 Emissions from Smokestacks - Workshop Summary

January 20, 2016

Author(s)

Aaron Johnson, Rodney Bryant, Tamae Wong, James Whetstone, Eric Harman, Woong Kang, Keith Gillis, Hsin-Hung Lee, Iosif Shinder, Liang Zhang

On April 20-21, 2015, NIST hosted a workshop that, through measurement science, enabled the owners of stationary sources (primarily the electric power industry)...

Characterization of nanoparticle suspensions using single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

January 8, 2016

Author(s)

Karen E. Murphy, Jingyu Liu, Antonio R. Montoro Bustos, Monique E. Johnson, Michael R. Winchester

This NIST special publication (SP) is one in a series of NIST SPs that address research needs articulated in the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)...

An Assessment of Typical Weather Year Data Impacts vs. Multi-year Weather Data on Net-Zero Energy Building Simulations

January 8, 2016

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, Eric G. O'Rear

Energy and Economic Implications of Solar Photovoltaic Performance Degradation

January 6, 2016

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, David H. Webb, Eric G. O'Rear

Comparing the Energy and Economic Performance of the NIST NZERTF Design across the Mixed-Humid Climate Zone

December 31, 2015

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel, Eric G. O'Rear

Community Resilience Economic Decision Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems

December 30, 2015

Author(s)

Stanley W. Gilbert, David Butry, Jennifer Helgeson, Robert E. Chapman

This Economic Guide provides a standard economic methodology for evaluating investment decisions aimed to improve the ability of communities to adapt to...

Framework for Cloud Usability

December 22, 2015

Author(s)

Brian C. Stanton, Mary F. Theofanos, Karun P. Joshi

Thermodynamic Properties of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

December 16, 2015

Author(s)

Thomas C. Allison, Donald R. Burgess Jr.

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are molecules that exist on earth due to natural and man-made causes. They are a significant health concern as many PAH...

Tracking Industry Operations Activity: A Case Study of US Automotive Manufacturing

December 14, 2015

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas, Anand M. Kandaswamy

Private firms, driven by competition, frequently achieve advances in efficiency on their own accord; however, there are often barriers to advancement that...

National Checklist Program for IT Products: Guidelines for Checklist Users and Developers

December 10, 2015

Author(s)

Stephen D. Quinn, Murugiah P. Souppaya, Melanie Cook, Karen Scarfone

[Superseded by SP 800-70 Rev. 3 (December 2015, updated 12/8/2016): https://www.nist.gov/node/1125056?pubid=922414 ] A security configuration checklist is a...

Mobile ID Device Best Practice Recommendation Version 2.0

December 10, 2015

Author(s)

Bradford J. Wing

LC-MS/MS Measurement of Nanomaterial Induced Genotoxicity in Isolated DNA

November 24, 2015

Author(s)

Bryant C. Nelson, Elijah J. Petersen, Pawel Jaruga, M Miral Dizdar

Making accurate measurements of the environmental fate and environmental and biological effects of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) is critical for reliable risk...

GC-MS/MS Measurement of Nanomaterial Induced Genotoxicity in Isolated DNA

November 24, 2015

Author(s)

Bryant C. Nelson, Elijah J. Petersen, Pawel Jaruga, M Miral Dizdar

Making accurate measurements of the environmental fate and environmental and biological effects of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) is critical for reliable risk...

GC/MS Measurement of Nanomaterial Induced Genotoxicity in Isolated DNA

November 24, 2015

Author(s)

Bryant C. Nelson, Elijah J. Petersen, Pawel Jaruga, M Miral Dizdar

Making accurate measurements of the environmental fate and environmental and biological effects of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) is critical for reliable risk...

Maps of Non-hurricane Non-tornadic Wind Speeds With Specified Mean Recurrence Intervals for the Contiguous United States Using a Two-Dimensional Poisson Process Extreme Value Model and Local Regression

November 12, 2015

Author(s)

Adam L. Pintar, Emil Simiu, Franklin T. Lombardo, Marc L. Levitan

This report describes a procedure for creating maps of non-hurricane, non-tornadic wind speeds for a set of recurrence intervals of interest between \num{10}...

Transitions: Recommendation for Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths

November 6, 2015

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Allen L. Roginsky

At the start of the 21st century, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) began the task of providing cryptographic key management guidance...

Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems, Volume I

October 29, 2015

Author(s)

Therese P. McAllister

The CRPG provides a methodology for local government to bring together all of the relevant stakeholders to establish performance goals to maintain the social...

Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems, Volume II

October 29, 2015

Author(s)

Therese P. McAllister

The CRPG provides a methodology for local government to bring together all of the relevant stakeholders to establish performance goals to maintain the social...

A Profile for U. S. Federal Cryptographic Key Management Systems

October 28, 2015

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Miles Smid, Dennis Branstad

This Profile for U. S. Federal Cryptographic Key Management Systems (FCKMSs) contains requirements for their design, implementation, procurement, installation...

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