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NIST Pubs

Mobile Application Security Exercise (MASE): Final Report

May 22, 2018

Author(s)

Michael A. Ogata

Mobile applications have become an integral part in the mission of the federal government and public safety. There exist many techniques that seek to assure...

Guide to Industrial Wireless Systems Deployments

May 21, 2018

Author(s)

Richard Candell, Mohamed T. Hany, Kang B. Lee, Yongkang Liu, Jeanne T. Quimby, Catherine A. Remley

This document is intended to be a practical guide used by engineers and managers facilitating them to go through the process of defining the objectives of their...

NIST Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program: Spring and Fall 1987 Comparability Studies-Results for Round Robins IX and XI Fat-Soluble Vitamins and Carotenoids in Human Serum

May 21, 2018

Author(s)

Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, David L. Duewer, Margaret C. Kline, Willie May, Emil Schonberger

From 1984 to 2017, the National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinated the Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) for...

Literature Review of Metal Additive Manufacturing Defects

May 17, 2018

Author(s)

Felix H. Kim, Shawn P. Moylan

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a revolutionary manufacturing technique, which is expected to reshape the future manufacturing industries. While various...

Investigations on SI-Traceable Dynamic Calibration of Instrumented Charpy Strikers

May 14, 2018

Author(s)

Akobuije D. Chijioke, Nicholas A. Vlajic, Enrico Lucon, Edward C. Mulhern

In this Technical Note, we report on investigations toward an SI-traceable dynamic calibration of instrumented Charpy strikers, performed at NIST from January...

Quick Start Guide for Populating Mobile Test Devices

May 10, 2018

Author(s)

Richard Ayers, Benjamin R. Livelsberger, Barbara Guttman

This guide provides procedures for documenting and populating various data elements typically found within the contents of a mobile device, e.g., mobile phone...

'Software Science' revisited: rationalizing Halstead's system using dimensionless units

May 9, 2018

Author(s)

David W. Flater

The set of software metrics introduced by Maurice H. Halstead in the 1970's has seen much scrutiny and not infrequent criticism. This article takes a fresh look...

Platform Firmware Resiliency Guidelines

May 4, 2018

Author(s)

Andrew R. Regenscheid

This document provides technical guidelines and recommendations supporting resiliency of platform firmware and data against potentially destructive attacks. The...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Biomarker Calibration Service: Proton Spin Relaxation Times

May 3, 2018

Author(s)

Michael A. Boss, Andrew M. Dienstfrey, Zydrunas Gimbutas, Kathryn E. Keenan, Jolene D. Splett, Karl F. Stupic, Stephen E. Russek

This document describes the calibration service to measure proton spin relaxation times, T1 and T2, of materials used in phantoms (calibration artifacts) to...

Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge: Prize Analysis

May 3, 2018

Author(s)

Gregory P. Fiumara, Elham Tabassi, Patricia A. Flanagan, John D. Grantham, Kenneth Ko, Karen Marshall, Matthew Schwarz, Bryan Woodgate, Christopher Boehnen

In September 2017, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity held a fingerprint data collection as part of the Nail to Nail Fingerprint Challenge...

Literature review of metal additive manufacturing defects:

May 1, 2018

Author(s)

Felix H Kim, Shawn P Moylan

Quick start guide for populating mobile test devices:

May 1, 2018

Author(s)

Rick Ayers, Benjamin Livelsberger, Barbara Guttman

Platform firmware resiliency guidelines:

May 1, 2018

Author(s)

Andrew Regenscheid

Magnetic resonance imaging biomarker calibration service: proton spin relaxation times:

May 1, 2018

Author(s)

Michael A Boss, Andrew M Dienstfrey, Zydrunas Gimbutas, Kathryn E Keenan, Anthony B Kos, Jolene D Splett, Karl F Stupic, Stephen E Russek

Nail to nail fingerprint challenge: prize analysis:

May 1, 2018

Author(s)

Gregory Fiumara, Elham Tabassi, Patricia Flanagan, John Grantham, Kenneth Ko, Karen Marshall, Matthew Schwarz, Bryan Woodgate, Christopher Boehnen

NIST time and frequency bulletin - May:

May 1, 2018

Author(s)

Kathryn Stephenson

US Army ARDEC Joint Fuze Technology Program (JFTP) task 2 report: quasi-static tensile tests of microfabricated electrodeposited (LIGA) Ni alloys:

May 1, 2018

Author(s)

Li-Anne Liew, David T Read, Ryan White, Nicholas Barbosa III

NIST micronutrients measurement quality assurance program: spring and fall 1987 comparability studies--results for round robins IX and XI fat-soluble vitamins and carotenoids in human serum:

May 1, 2018

Author(s)

David L Duewer, Margaret C Kline, Willie E May, Robert Schaffer, Emil Schonberger, Jeanice B Thomas

Burning Velocities of Marginally Flammable Refrigerant-Air Mixtures

May 1, 2018

Author(s)

Gregory T. Linteris

Refrigerant working fluids have been predicted to be large contributors to the increase in radiative forcing of the earth. Consequently, existing compounds will...

NIST Interlaboratory Study of Aerosol Absorption Measurements using Photoacoustic Spectroscopy

April 27, 2018

Author(s)

Christopher D. Zangmeister, James G. Radney

The National Institute of Standards and Technology coordinated an interlaboratory study for laboratories that use photoacoustic spectroscopy to measure and...

The Costs and Benefits of Advanced Maintenance in Manufacturing

April 25, 2018

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas

The manufacturing atmosphere is continually changing with new technologies and standards being swiftly developed. Firms create competitive advantages using...

Improving the Trustworthiness of E-Mail, and Beyond!

April 25, 2018

Author(s)

Scott W. Rose, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte

This bulletin summarizes the information found in NIST SP 1800-6: Domain Name System-Based Electronic Mail Security, which describes a security platform for...

New Software for the Statistical Analysis and Qualification of NIST Charpy Verification Specimen Lots

April 24, 2018

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon

New software, in the form of Microsoft Excel 2016 spreadsheets, has been created for the analysis and qualification of Charpy Verification Lots, to be used by...

Cloud Computing Service Metrics Description

April 24, 2018

Author(s)

Frederic J. de Vaulx, Eric D. Simmon, Robert B. Bohn

With cloud computing in the mainstream, there is a preponderance of cloud based services in the market and the choices for consumers increase daily. However...

Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Version 1.3 Validation Program Test Requirements

April 20, 2018

Author(s)

Melanie Cook, Dragos Prisaca, Stephen D. Quinn, David A. Waltermire

This report defines the requirements and associated test procedures necessary for products or modules to achieve one or more Security Content Automation...

Codes for the Identification of Federal and Federally-Assisted Organizations

April 19, 2018

Author(s)

Hildegard Ferraiolo

The Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-12 called for new standards to be adopted governing the interoperable use of identity credentials to allow...

IREX IX Part One, Performance of Iris Recognition Algorithms

April 18, 2018

Author(s)

George W. Quinn, James R. Matey, Patrick J. Grother

Iris Exchange (IREX) IX is an evaluation of automated iris recognition algorithms. The first part of the evaluation is a performance test of both verification...

A Software Assurance Reference Dataset: Thousands of Programs With Known Bugs

April 16, 2018

Author(s)

Paul E. Black

The Software Assurance Reference Dataset (SARD) is a growing collection of over 170 000 programs with precisely located bugs. The programs are in C, C++, Java...

Recommendation for Key-Derivation Methods in Key-Agreement Schemes

April 16, 2018

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Lidong Chen

This Recommendation specifies techniques for the derivation of keying material from a shared secret established during a key-establishment scheme defined in...

Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key-Establishment Schemes Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography

April 16, 2018

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Lidong Chen, Allen L. Roginsky, Apostol T. Vassilev, Richard Davis

This Recommendation specifies key-establishment schemes based on the discrete logarithm problem over finite fields and elliptic curves, including several...

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