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Special Publication (NIST SP)

Center for Nanoscale Science & Technology 2010 Report

May 9, 2011

Author(s)

Lloyd J. Whitman, Robert G. Rudnitsky, G. D. Rogers

BIOS Protection Guidelines

April 29, 2011

Author(s)

David Cooper, William Polk, Andrew Regenscheid, Murugiah Souppaya

This document provides guidelines for preventing the unauthorized modification of Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware on PC client systems. Unauthorized...

Technical Study of the Sofa Super Store Fire, South Carolina, June 18, 2007, Volume II (Appendices)

March 14, 2011

Author(s)

Nelson P. Bryner, Stephen P. Fuss, Bryan W. Klein, Anthony D. Putorti Jr.

A fire occurred on the evening of June 18, 2007, in the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, SC. NIST analyzed the fire ground, consulted with other experts, and...

Technical Study of the Sofa Super Store Fire, South Carolina, June 18, 2007, Volume I

March 14, 2011

Author(s)

Nelson P. Bryner, Stephen P. Fuss, Bryan W. Klein, Anthony D. Putorti Jr.

A fire occurred on the evening of June 18, 2007, in the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, SC. NIST analyzed the fire ground, consulted with other experts, and...

NIST Measurement Services: Regular Spectral Transmittance

March 10, 2011

Author(s)

David W. Allen, Edward A. Early, Benjamin K. Tsai, Catherine C. Cooksey

This document describes measurement services, instrumentation, and measurement techniques for regular spectral transmittance over the spectral range from 250 nm...

Managing Information Security Risk: Organization, Mission, and Information System View

March 1, 2011

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross

The purpose of Special Publication 800-39 is to provide guidance for an integrated, organization-wide program for managing information security risk to...

NIST SP 500-268, Source Code Security Analysis Tool Function Specification Version 1.1

February 28, 2011

Author(s)

Elizabeth N. Fong, Paul Black, Michael J. Kass, Hsiao-Ming M. Koo

Software assurance tools are a fundamental resource to improve assurance in today's software applications. Some tools analyze software requirements or design...

The Technical Specification for the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP): SCAP Version 1.1

February 25, 2011

Author(s)

David A. Waltermire, Stephen Quinn, Karen Scarfone

This document provides the definitive technical specification for Version 1.1 of the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP). SCAP consists of a suite of...

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

February 25, 2011

Author(s)

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

Special Publication 800-70 Revision 2 - National Checklist Program for IT Products Guidelines for Checklist Users and Developers describes security...

Guide to Using Vulnerability Naming Schemes

February 25, 2011

Author(s)

David A. Waltermire, Karen Scarfone

This publication provides recommendations for using two vulnerability naming schemes: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and Common Configuration...

2010 Proceedings of the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS'10) Workshop

February 8, 2011

Author(s)

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

The 2010 Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems workshop is the tenth in a series dedicated to defining measures and methodologies of evaluating...

Guide to Security for Full Virtualization Technologies

January 28, 2011

Author(s)

Murugiah P. Souppaya, Karen Scarfone, Paul Hoffman

The purpose of SP 800-125 is to discuss the security concerns associated with full virtualization technologies for server and desktop virtualization, and to...

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

January 13, 2011

Author(s)

Elaine Barker, Allen Roginsky

[Superseded by SP 800-131A Revision 1 (November 2015): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=919563] At the start of the 21st century...

Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Sizes for Personal Identity Verification

December 31, 2010

Author(s)

William Polk, Donna F. Dodson, William E. Burr, Hildegard Ferraiolo, David Cooper

[Superseded by SP 800-78-4 (May 2015): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=918499] This document contains the technical specifications...

Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6

December 29, 2010

Author(s)

Sheila E. Frankel, Richard Graveman, John Pearce, Mark Rooks

Due to the exhaustion of IPv4 address space, and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) mandate that U.S. federal agencies begin to use the IPv6 protocol...

Recommendation for Existing Application-Specific Key Derivation Functions

December 23, 2010

Author(s)

Quynh Dang

[Superseded by NIST SP 800-135 Rev. 1, "Recommendation for Existing Application-Specific Key Derivation Functions" (December 2011), http://www.nist.gov...

Recommendation for Password-Based Key Derivation Part 1: Storage Applications

December 22, 2010

Author(s)

Meltem Sonmez Turan, Elaine Barker, William E. Burr, Lidong Chen

This Recommendation specifies techniques for the derivation of master keys from passwords or passphrases to protect stored electronic data or data protection...

Technical Study of the Sofa Super Store Fire-South Carolina, June 18, 2007 Volume II DRAFT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT (for final version, see NIST SP 1119, March 2011)

October 28, 2010

Author(s)

Nelson P. Bryner, Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Stephen P. Fuss, Bryan W. Klein

A fire occurred on the evening of June 18, 2007, in the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, SC. NIST analyzed the fire ground, consulted with other experts, and...

Technical Study of the Sofa Super Store Fire- South Carolina, June 18, 2007 Volume I DRAFT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT (for final version, see NIST SP 1118, March 2011)

October 28, 2010

Author(s)

Nelson P. Bryner, Anthony D. Putorti Jr., Stephen P. Fuss, Bryan W. Klein

A fire occurred on the evening of June 18, 2007, in the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, SC. NIST analyzed the fire ground, consulted with other experts, and...

Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Three Variants of Ciphertext Stealing for CBC Mode

October 21, 2010

Author(s)

Morris J. Dworkin

A limitation to Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode, as specified in NIST Special Publication 800-38A, is that the plaintext input must consist of a sequence of...

Disaster Resilience: A Guide to the Literature

October 13, 2010

Author(s)

Stanley W. Gilbert

Although there is a great deal of high-quality information available on resilience-related topics hazard assessment, vulnerability assessment, risk assessment...

Practical Combinatorial Testing

October 7, 2010

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Yu Lei

Combinatorial testing can help detect problems like this early in the testing life cycle. The key insight underlying t-way combinatorial testing is that not...

Economics of Egress Alternatives and Life-Safety Costs

September 30, 2010

Author(s)

Robert E. Chapman, David T. Butry, Allison L. Huang, Douglas S. Thomas

Fire protection measures are needed to maintain the safety and integrity of the Nation s building stock and to limit loss of life and property when building...

Guide to Securing WiMAX Wireless Communications

September 30, 2010

Author(s)

Karen Scarfone, Cyrus Tibbs, Matt Sexton

The purpose of this document is to provide information to organizations regarding the security capabilities of wireless communications using WiMAX networks and...

Methodology for Calculating Construction Industry Supply Chain Statistics

September 30, 2010

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas

Data from the Economic Census provides detailed statistics on the construction industry; however, the data is only gathered every five years. The Bureau of...

Real-Time Monitoring of Total Inward Leakage of Respiratory Equipment Used by Emergency responders: Workshop Proceedings

September 27, 2010

Author(s)

Kathryn Butler, Marc R. Nyden, Rodney Bryant

A workshop on respirator sensors was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on May 1, 2009. The objective of this workshop was to...

A Statistical Test Suite for Random and Pseudorandom Number Generators for Cryptographic Applications

September 16, 2010

Author(s)

Lawrence E. Bassham, Andrew L. Rukhin, Juan Soto, James R. Nechvatal, Miles E. Smid, Stefan D. Leigh, M Levenson, M Vangel, Nathanael A. Heckert, D L. Banks

This paper discusses some aspects of selecting and testing random and pseudorandom number generators. The outputs of such generators may be used in many...

Measuring Up to Sustainable Water, NIST-Virginia Tech Workshop on Aging Water Infrastructure September 9-10 2010

September 9, 2010

Author(s)

Stephanie A. Hooker, Christopher N. McCowan, Sunil K. Sinha, Mark Edwards

The NIST-VT workshop identified funding priorities for federal institutions and other funding sources for sustainable water infrastructure systems in order to...

Report of the 94th National Conference on Weights and Measures, July 12 - 16, 2009, San Antonio, Texas (SP1099)

August 2, 2010

Author(s)

Tina G. Butcher, Steven E. Cook, Linda D. Crown, Lisa Warfield

The 94th Annual Meeting of the National Conferenc eon Weights and Measures (NCWM) was held in San Antonio, Texas, July 12 throgh 16, 2009. The theme of the...

PIV Card Application and Middleware Interface Test Guidelines (SP800-73-3 compliance)

July 28, 2010

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ketan Mehta

[Superseded by SP 800-85A-4 (April 2016): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=920340] The objective of this document is to provide test...

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