David Cooper

Publications

Guidelines for the Selection, Configuration, and Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) Implementations

August 29, 2019

Author(s):

Kerry A. McKay, David A. Cooper

Transport Layer Security (TLS) provides mechanisms to protect data during electronic dissemination across the Internet. This Special Publication provides...

Status Report on the First Round of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process

January 31, 2019

Author(s):

Gorjan Alagic, Jacob M. Alperin-Sheriff, Daniel C. Apon, David A. Cooper, Quynh H. Dang, Carl A. Miller, Dustin Moody, Rene C. Peralta, Ray A. Perlner, Angela Y. Robinson, Daniel C. Smith-Tone, Yi-Kai Liu

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the process of selecting one or more public-key cryptographic algorithms through a public competition-...

Protecting Software Integrity Through Code Signing

May 23, 2018

Author(s):

David A. Cooper, Leonard Feldman, Gregory A. Witte

This bulletin summarizes the information found in the white paper Security Considerations for Code Signing, which describes features and architectural...

Security Considerations for Code Signing

January 26, 2018

Author(s):

David A. Cooper, Andrew R. Regenscheid, Murugiah P. Souppaya

A wide range of software products (also known as code)--including firmware, operating systems, mobile applications, and application container images--must be...

Derived PIV Application and Data Model Test Guidelines

June 06, 2016

Author(s):

David A. 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...