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Special Publication (NIST SP)

March 2013 SRM Spotlight

February 25, 2013

Author(s)

Regina R. Montgomery

The SRM Spotlight is a newsletter published by the Measurement Services Division for users of NIST standard reference materials. The Spotlight announces new

User's Guide for RM 8096 and 8097: The MEMS 5-in-1, 2013 Edition

February 15, 2013

Author(s)

Janet M. Cassard, Jon C. Geist, Theodore V. Vorburger, David T. Read, Michael Gaitan, David G. Seiler

The Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) 5-in-1 is a reference device sold as a NIST Reference Material (RM) that contains MEMS test structures on a test chip

Benefits and Costs of Energy Standard Adoption in New Commercial Buildings

February 6, 2013

Author(s)

Joshua D. Kneifel

Latent Interoperability Transmission Specification

February 5, 2013

Author(s)

Melissa Taylor, Will Chapman, Austin Hicklin, George Kiebuzinski, Peter Komarinski, John Mayer-Splain, Rachel Wallner

The Latent Interoperability Transmission Specification (LITS) is an application profile of the American National Standards Institute/National Institute of

Markup Instructions for Extended Friction Ridge Features

February 5, 2013

Author(s)

Melissa Taylor, Will Chapman, Austin Hicklin, George Kiebuzinski, Peter Komarinski, John Mayer-Splain, Rachel Wallner

This document provides instructions for latent print examiners in marking friction ridge features to maximize consistency among examiners. This document builds

Report on the Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE) IV

February 4, 2013

Author(s)

Vadim Okun, Aurelien M. Delaitre, Paul E. Black

The NIST SAMATE project conducted the fourth Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE IV) to advance research in static analysis tools that find security defects

Fourth NIST Workshop on Carbon Nanotubes: Chirality Measurements

January 30, 2013

Author(s)

Jeffrey A. Fagan

On September 23rd and 24th, 2010, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted the fourth in a series of workshops addressing measurement

SRM Catalog

January 18, 2013

Author(s)

Regina R. Montgomery

SRM Catalog

Extended Feature Set Profile Specification

January 14, 2013

Author(s)

Melissa Taylor, Will Chapman, Austin Hicklin, George Kiebuzinski, John Mayer-Splain, Rachel Wallner, Peter Komarinski

This specification defines Extended Feature Set (EFS) Profiles - sets of features to be used in latent friction ridge (fingerprint, palmprint or plantar)

Standard Reference Materials: SRM 1453, Expanded Polystyrene Board, for Thermal Conductivity from 281 K to 313 K

December 21, 2012

Author(s)

Robert R. Zarr, Adam L. Pintar

Thermal conductivity measurements at and near room temperature are presented as the basis for certified values of thermal conductivity of SRM 1453, Expanded

Characterization of the US Construction Labor Supply

December 21, 2012

Author(s)

Stanley W. Gilbert

This study characterizes the construction labor pool, and carries out preliminary work toward an estimation of the supply and demand for construction labor

Recommendation for Cryptographic Key Generation

December 21, 2012

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Allen L. Roginsky

Cryptography is often used in an information technology security environment to protect data that is sensitive, has a high value, or is vulnerable to

The Current State and Recent Trends of the U.S. Manufacturing Industry

December 20, 2012

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas

This report brings together multiple sources of aggregate manufacturing industry data and industry subsector data to develop a quantitative depiction of the U.S

Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Methods for Key Wrapping

December 13, 2012

Author(s)

Morris J. Dworkin

This publication describes cryptographic methods that are approved for "key wrapping," i.e., the protection of the confidentiality and integrity of

2012 Proceedings of the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMI'12) Workshop

November 21, 2012

Author(s)

Rajmohan (. Madhavan, Elena R. Messina, Brian Weiss

The 2012 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems workshop is the eleventh in a series dedicated to defining measures and methodologies of evaluating

Progress Report National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); Technical Investigation of the May 22, 2011, Tornado in Joplin, Missouri (NISTSP 1139)

November 15, 2012

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski, Franklin T. Lombardo, Long Phan, Marc L. Levitan, David P. Jorgensen

On June 29, 2011, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced that it would conduct a technical investigation of the tornado that struck

Summary of Workshop on Fire-Structure Interaction and Urban and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires Operation Tomodachi: Fire Research

September 28, 2012

Author(s)

Samuel L. Manzello, Sayaka S. Suzuki, Tokiyoshi Yamada

Dr. Samuel L. Manzello of NISTs Engineering Laboratory (EL) served as the USA side organizer of the 2nd Japan-USA workshop held in Tokyo, Japan from July 1 to

Guide for Conducting Risk Assessments

September 17, 2012

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross

The purpose of Special Publication 800-30 is to provide guidance for conducting risk assessments of federal information systems and organizations, amplifying

Conformance Testing Methodology for ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011, Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial & Other Biometric Information (Release 1.0)

September 5, 2012

Author(s)

Fernando L. Podio, Dylan J. Yaga, Christofer J. McGinnis

Conformance testing measures whether an implementation faithfully implements the technical requirements defined in a standard. Conformance testing provides

Recommendation for Applications Using Approved Hash Algorithms

August 24, 2012

Author(s)

Quynh H. Dang

Hash functions that compute a fixed-length message digest from arbitrary length messages are widely used for many purposes in information security. This

Computer Security Incident Handling Guide

August 6, 2012

Author(s)

Paul R. Cichonski, Thomas Millar, Timothy Grance, Karen Scarfone

Computer security incident response has become an important component of information technology (IT) programs. Security-related threats have become not only

A Method for the Preparation of NIST Traceable Fossil Fuel Standards with Concentrations Intermediate to SRM Values

August 1, 2012

Author(s)

William R. Kelly, Bruce S. MacDonald, John L. Molloy, Stefan D. Leigh, Andrew L. Rukhin

A procedure is presented whereby the fossil fuel community may design and mix SRMs in different proportions and thereby produce in their laboratory fossil fuel

Calibration uncertainty for the NIST PM/AM noise standards

July 31, 2012

Author(s)

Archita Hati, Craig W. Nelson, Neil Ashby, David A. Howe

NIST provides an on-site calibration service of the accuracy of phase modulation (PM) noise, amplitude modulation (AM) noise and noise floor of the measurement

Recommendation for Key Management - Part 1: General (Revision 3)

July 10, 2012

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, William C. Barker, William E. Burr, William T. Polk, Miles E. Smid

[Superseded by SP 800-57 Part 1 Revision 4 (January 2016): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=919831]This Recommendation provides