Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

NIST Pubs

Status Report on the First Round of the SHA-3 Cryptographic Hash Algorithm Competition

September 23, 2009

Author(s)

Andrew R. Regenscheid, Ray A. Perlner, Shu-jen H. Chang, John M. Kelsey, Mridul Nandi, Souradyuti Paul

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the process of selecting a new cryptographic hash algorithm through a public competition. The new hash...

Recommendation for Digital Signature Timeliness

September 23, 2009

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker

Establishing the time when a digital signature was generated is often a critical consideration. A signed message that includes the (purported) signing time...

Bochner Subordination, Logarithmic Diffusion Equations, and Blind Deconvolution of Hubble Space Telescope Imagery and Other Scientific Data

September 23, 2009

Author(s)

Alfred S. Carasso

Generalized Linnik processes and associated logarithmic diffusion equations can be constructed by appropriate Bochner randomization of the time variable in...

Recommendation for EAP Methods Used in Wireless Network Access Authentication

September 17, 2009

Author(s)

Lidong Chen, Katrin Hoeper

This Recommendation specifies security requirements for authentication methods with key establishment supported by the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)...

A Coherent Approach for Interrogating Polybenzoxazole Fibers for Residual Phosphoric Acid

September 17, 2009

Author(s)

Gale A. Holmes, Eun S. Park, Charles M. Guttman, Kathleen M. Flynn, John R. Sieber, Stephanie S. Watson, Kirk D. Rice

Because of the premature failure of soft-body armor that contains the active fiber poly [(benzo-[1,2-d:5,4-d']-benzoxazole-2,6-diyl)-1,4-phenylene] (PBO), the...

Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations [includes updates through 9/14/2009]

September 14, 2009

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross

[Superseded by NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 3 (August 2009 w/updates through 5/1/2010): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=903280] The...

WWVB Radio Controlled Clocks: Recommended Practices for Manufacturers and Consumers (2009 edition)

September 8, 2009

Author(s)

Michael A. Lombardi, Andrew N. Novick, John P. Lowe, Matthew J. Deutch, Glenn K. Nelson, Douglas D. Sutton, William C. Yates, D. W. Hanson

Radio controlled clocks represent a true revolution in timekeeping. Clocks that synchronize to NIST radio station WWVB now number in the millions in the United...

Building Plumbing System Decontamination - First Report on Recommendations

September 6, 2009

Author(s)

Stephen J. Treado, Mark A. Kedzierski, Stephanie S. Watson, Nicos Martys, Kenneth D. Cole

This report summarizes the measurement results and recommended procedures for responding to building plumbing system contamination incidents and restoring the...

Fundamental Equations of State for Parahydrogen, Normal Hydrogen, and Orthohydrogen

September 4, 2009

Author(s)

Jacob W. Leachman, Bryce Jacobson, Steven Penoncello, Eric Lemmon

If the potential for a boom in the global hydrogen economy is realized, there will be an increase in the need for accurate hydrogen thermodynamic property...

Toward a standard on the wind tunnel method

September 2, 2009

Author(s)

Emil Simiu

This document is intended to provide practicing engineers and building code officials with a technical resource that (i) describes current practices for the...

Time and Frequency Users Manual

September 2, 2009

Author(s)

Michael A. Lombardi

This book is for the person who needs information about making time and frequency measurements. It is written at a level that will satisfy those with a casual...

Perturbations from Ducts on the Modes of Acoustic Thermometers

September 1, 2009

Author(s)

Keith A. Gillis, Michael R. Moldover, Hong Lin

We examine the perturbations of the modes of an acoustic thermometer caused by circular ducts used either for gas flow or as acoustic waveguides coupled to...

First-Principles Calculation of the Third Virial Coefficient of Helium

September 1, 2009

Author(s)

Allan H. Harvey, Giovanni Garberoglio

Knowledge of the pair and three-body potential-energy surfaces of helium is now sufficient to allow calculation of the third density virial coefficient, C(T)...

Uncertainty calculation for spectral-responsivity measurements

September 1, 2009

Author(s)

John H. Lehman, Chih-Ming Wang, Marla L. Dowell, Joshua A. Hadler

This paper discusses a procedure for measuring the absolute spectral responsivity of optical-fiber power meters and computation of the calibration uncertainty...

Study of the Acid Generation in Aqueous Environments from Copolymer Fibers based on 5-amino-2-(p-aminophenyl)-benzimidazole

September 1, 2009

Author(s)

Amanda L. Forster, Guillaume Messin, Kirk D. Rice, Michael A. Riley, Stephanie S. Watson

In a communication to the ballistic vest community released in January 2006, there was an allegation by a competing fiber manufacturer that copolymer fibers...

Outdoor-to-Indoor Channel Measurements and Models

September 1, 2009

Author(s)

Catherine A. Remley, Christopher L. Holloway, David W. Matolak

This document reports on wireless channel measurements and models for outdoor to indoor propagation environments. Although there have been a number of...

Heat and Mass Transfer Through Gypsum Partitions Subjected to Fire Exposures

August 31, 2009

Author(s)

S R. Kukuck

A model is presented that describes the heat transfer through a gypsum wallboard partition assembly incorporating the mass transport effects of water in liquid...

Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes Using Integer Factorization Cryptography

August 28, 2009

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Lidong Chen, Andrew R. Regenscheid, Miles E. Smid

[Superseded by SP 800-56B Rev. 1 (September 2014): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=916341] This recommendation specifies key...

Compilation of Data on the Sublethal Effects of Fire Effluent

August 28, 2009

Author(s)

Erica D. Kuligowski

The NRC is developing guidance for performing quantitative human reliability analysis for post-fire mitigative human actions modeled in a fire probability risk...

FIRE FACTS

August 28, 2009

Author(s)

James R. Lawson

Fire Facts gives the reader an ordered series of temperature and heat flux values that may be associated to fire growth conditions and relates these exposure...

STEP-OAGIS Harmonization Joint Working Group, PDM Subgroup Interim Report

August 27, 2009

Author(s)

Xenia Fiorentini, Sudarsan Rachuri

In any manufacturing enterprise, there are two types of tools used to create and share product related data across its extended network. The engineering...

Formal Representation of Product Design Specifications for Validating Product Designs

August 27, 2009

Author(s)

Alex Weissman, Satyandra K. Gupta, Xenia Fiorentini, Sudarsan Rachuri, Ram D. Sriram

Large scale distributed design projects increasingly result in designs that do not fully conform to the stated design goals or specifications. Hence, there is a...

The ABCs oF Standards Activities

August 23, 2009

Author(s)

Maureen A. Breitenberg

This report is an introduction to standardization and the U.S. standards system for readers that are not familiar with this topic. It highlights some of the...

Revised Catalog of Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations: For Use in Both National Security and Nonnational Security Systems

August 20, 2009

Author(s)

Shirley M. Radack

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication 800-53, Revision 3, Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems...

Three Dimensional Shape Retrieval using Scale Invariant Feature Transform and Spatial Restrictions

August 20, 2009

Author(s)

Lydia A. Lei

Three dimensional shape retrieval is a fairly new concept being studied all over the world. It is notable and essential because it can be applied to multiple...

Mobile ID Device Best Practice Recommendation Version 1.0

August 19, 2009

Author(s)

Shahram Orandi, R. Michael McCabe

A 1D Spectral Image Validation/Verification Metric for Fingerprints

August 19, 2009

Author(s)

John M. Libert, John D. Grantham, Shahram Orandi

Image validation and verification are important functions in the acquisition of fingerprint images from live-scan devices and for assessing and maintaining the...

System Builders Manual for Version 2.1.5 of the NIST DMIS Test Suite

August 19, 2009

Author(s)

Thomas R. Kramer, John A. Horst

This is a system builders manual for the NIST DMIS Test Suite, version 2.1.5. The purpose of the manual is to help system builders use software provided in the...

Users Manual for Version 2.1.5 of the NIST DMIS Test Suite (for DMIS 5.1)

August 19, 2009

Author(s)

Thomas R. Kramer, John A. Horst

The NIST DMIS Test Suite, version 2.1.5, is described. The test suite is intended to serve two purposes, 1) to help users and vendors use version 5.1 of DMIS...

Assessing Face Overlay

August 17, 2009

Author(s)

Mary F. Theofanos, Brian C. Stanton, Charles L. Sheppard, Ross J. Micheals, Yee-Yin Choong, John W. Wydler II, Kevin C. Mangold, Michelle P. Steves, Emile L. Morse

The United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology's (US-VISIT) has embarked on an effort to improve the quality of facial images captured at...

Was this page helpful?