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NIST Pubs

Cannabis Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 1 Final Report

Author(s)
MARYAM ABDUL-RAHMAN, Melissa M. Phillips, Walter Brent Wilson
NIST launched a CannaQAP in 2020 to improve the comparability of the analytical measurements in forensic and Cannabis (hemp and marijuana) testing laboratories

Review of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Author(s)
Nicky Mouha, Morris Dworkin
The field of cryptography continues to advance at a very rapid pace, leading to new insights that may impact the security properties of cryptographic algorithms

NVLAP Federal Warfare System(s)

Author(s)
Bradley Moore, John Matyjas, Raymond Tierney, Jesse Angle, Jeannine Abiva, Jeff Hanes, David Dobosh, John Avera
NIST Handbook 150-872 presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory

Managing the Security of Information Exchanges

Author(s)
Kelley L. Dempsey, Victoria Yan Pillitteri, Andrew Regenscheid
An organization often has mission and business-based needs to exchange (share) information with one or more other internal or external organizations via various

Aerial LTE Demonstration Report

Author(s)
Maxwell Maurice, Sam Ray
In this paper, we investigate a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network mounted on an airborne small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) to provide broadband connectivity

NIST Fingerprint Image Quality 2

Author(s)
Elham Tabassi, Martin Olsen, Oliver Bausinger, Christoph Busch, Andrew Figlarz, Gregory Fiumara, Olaf Henniger, Johannes Merkle, Timo Ruhland, Christopher Schiel, Michael Schwaiger
NIST Fingerprint Image Quality (NFIQ 2) is open source software that links image quality of optical and ink 500 pixel per inch fingerprints to operational

New International Formulation for the Viscosity of Heavy Water

Author(s)
Marc J. Assael, S.A. Monogenidou, Marcia L. Huber, Richard A. Perkins, Jan V. Sengers
The International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) has recently adopted a new formulation for the thermodynamic properties of heavy

NVLAP Energy Efficient Lighting Products

Author(s)
Timothy Rasinski, C Cameron Miller
NIST Handbook 150-1, NVLAP Energy Efficient Lighting Products, presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the

User Guide for NIST Media Forensic Challenge (MFC) Datasets

Author(s)
Haiying Guan, Andrew Delgado, Yooyoung Lee, Amy Yates, Daniel Zhou, Timothée N. Kheyrkhah, Jonathan G. Fiscus
NIST released a set of Media Forensic Challenge (MFC) datasets developed in DARPA MediFor (Media Forensics) project to the public in the past 5 years. More than

NVLAP Cryptographic and Security Testing

Author(s)
Bradley Moore, Beverly Trapnell, James F. Fox, Carolyn French
NIST Handbook 150-17 presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory

Hardware-Enabled Security: Container Platform Security Prototype

Author(s)
Murugiah Souppaya, Michael Bartock, Karen Scarfone, Jerry Wheeler, Tim Knoll, Uttam Shetty, Ryan Savino, Joseprabu Inbaraj, Stefano Righi
In today's cloud data centers and edge computing, attack surfaces have significantly increased, hacking has become industrialized, and most security control

LIQUID FLOW METER CALIBRATIONS WITH NIST's 15 kg/s WATER FLOW STANDARD

Author(s)
Jodie Gail Pope, Aaron Johnson, James Filla, Vern E. Bean, Michael R. Moldover, Joey Boyd, Christopher J. Crowley, Iosif Isaakovich Shinder, Keith A. Gillis, John D. Wright
We describe the 15 kg/s water flow calibration standard operated by the Fluid Metrology Group of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to

The Thermal Character of a 1 m Methanol Pool Fire

Author(s)
Kunhyuk Sung, Jian Chen, Matthew Bundy, Marco G. Fernandez, Anthony Hamins
This is the second edition of this study, which presents a series of measurements conducted to characterize the structure of a 1 m diameter methanol pool fire
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