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NIST Pubs

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 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...

Criticality Analysis Process Model

April 9, 2018

Author(s)

Celia Paulsen, Jon M. Boyens, Nadya Bartol, Kris Winkler

In the modern world, where complex systems and systems-of-systems are integral to the functioning of society and businesses, it is increasingly important to be...

Technical Review of NISTs Free Standard Reference Data Products

April 9, 2018

Author(s)

Debra L. Kaiser, Robert J. Hanisch

Over the past two years, the ODI has undertaken an ambitious effort to modernize the SRD Program. This report covers one aspect of this modernization effort, a...

Special Database 34 - Plain and Rolled fingerprints from live and rescanned images

April 9, 2018

Author(s)

Patricia A. Flanagan

The new NIST database comes from the FBI which contains live-scan and rescanned ink images from deceased subjects. The database offers the user American...

Applied and Computational Mathematics Division Summary of Activities for Fiscal Year 2017

April 6, 2018

Author(s)

Ronald F. Boisvert

This report summarizes recent technical work of the Applied and Computational Sciences Division of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National...

Energy Price Indices and Discount Factors for Life-Cycle Cost Analysis - 2018 Annual Supplement to NIST Handbook 135

April 6, 2018

Author(s)

Priya Lavappa, Joshua D. Kneifel

Report on the NIST/DHS/FDA Workshop: Standards for Pathogen Detection for Biosurveillance and Clinical Applications

April 5, 2018

Author(s)

Scott Jackson, Jason Kralj, Nancy Lin

The 2017 NIST/DHS/FDA Workshop: Standards for Pathogen Detection for Biosurveillance and Clinical Applications brought together subject matter experts from the...