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An Elementary Proof of Private Random Number Generation from Bell Inequalities

July 20, 2017

Author(s)

Carl A. Miller

The field of device-independent quantum cryptography has seen enormous success in the past several years, including security proofs for key distribution and...

APPENDIX TO THE REPORT:BILATERAL KEY COMPARISON SIM.T-K6.3 ON HUMIDITY STANDARDSIN THE DEW/FROST-POINT TEMPERATURE RANGE FROM ?30 °C TO 20 °C

July 3, 2017

Author(s)

Peter H. Huang, Christopher Meyer, Julio Brionizio

A Regional Metrology Organization (RMO) Key Comparison of dew/frost point temperatures was carried out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

APPENDIX TO THE REPORT:BILATERAL KEY COMPARISON SIM.T-K6.2 ON HUMIDITY STANDARDS IN THE DEW/FROST-POINT TEMPERATURE RANGE FROM –20 °C TO 20 °C

July 3, 2017

Author(s)

Peter H. Huang, Christopher Meyer, Enrique Martines-Lopez, Jesus Davila Pacheco, Edgar Mendez-Lango

A Regional Metrology Organization (RMO) Key Comparison of dew/frost point temperatures was carried out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

A Cross Benchmark Assessment of A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Face Recognition

June 29, 2017

Author(s)

P J. Phillips

SPHINCS-Simpira: Fast Stateless Hash-based Signatures with Post-quantum Security

June 29, 2017

Author(s)

Shay Gueron, Nicky Mouha

We introduce SPHINCS-Simpira, which is a variant of the SPHINCS signature scheme with Simpira as a building block. SPHINCS was proposed by Bernstein et al. at...

Weak is Better: Tightly Secure Short Signatures from Weak PRFs

June 7, 2017

Author(s)

Jacob M. Alperin-Sheriff, Daniel Apon

The Boyen-Li signature scheme [Asiacrypt'16] is a major theoretical breakthrough. Via a clever homomorphic evaluation of a pseudorandom function over their...

Channel Sounder Measurement Verification and Uncertainty

June 2, 2017

Author(s)

Catherine A. Remley, Jeanne T. Quimby, Paul D. Hale, Dylan F. Williams, Jeffrey A. Jargon, Rodney W. Leonhardt

This presentation describes channel-sounder measurement verification procedures including options such as comparing measurements to theory, conducted tests of a...

An Analysis Framework and Additive Software Analysis

Author(s)

Paul E. Black

We present a framework for software assurance, in addition to an additive software analysis approach. Both have the potential to dramatically reduce software...

Goals of and Charge to the NIST Workshop on Software Measures and Metrics to Reduce Security Vulnerabilities (SwMM-RSV)

Author(s)

Paul E. Black

The Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan seeks to fundamentally alter the dynamics of security, reversing adversaries' asymmetrical...

SARD: A Software Assurance Reference Dataset

Author(s)

Paul E. Black

Software assurance tools examine code for problems. To test such tools, we need programs with known bugs as ground truth. The Software Assurance Reference...

MediFor Nimble Challenge Evaluation

April 17, 2017

Author(s)

Jonathan G. Fiscus, Haiying Guan, Yooyoung Lee, Amy Yates, Andrew Delgado, Daniel F. Zhou, Timothée N. Kheyrkhah

Standardized Measurements of Collection Efficiency from Wipe-Sampling of Trace Explosives

April 10, 2017

Author(s)

Jennifer R. Verkouteren, Jeffrey A. Lawrence, Matthew E. Staymates, Edward R. Sisco

One of the limiting steps to detecting traces of explosives at screening venues is effective collection of the sample. Wipe-sampling is the most common...

What More Agile Robots Could Mean for Consumers

March 24, 2017

Author(s)

Craig I. Schlenoff

The ways that developers of robots have talked about their craft have been highly specialized to a given domain-and sometimes have varied even within the domain...

Radiometric Metrology for Ocean Color

March 13, 2017

Author(s)

B. Carol Johnson

This talk covered the topics of uncertainty terminology (in brief), radiometric comparisons, gave an illustration of a spectral radiance scale realization, and...

MOBY Review at Fiducial Reference Measurements for Satellite Ocean Color, Frascati, Italy, Feb 21 to 23, 2017

March 13, 2017

Author(s)

Kenneth Voss, B. Carol Johnson, Mark A. Yarbrough, Stephanie J. Flora, Michael Feinholz, Darryl Peters, Terrance Houlihan, Sean Mundell, Sandy Yarbrough, Art Gleason

This talk provided an overview of the MOBY project and the work we are doing now to move the MOBY instrumentation forward into the future. This is the first of...

Bonded Wafers for Three-Dimensional Integration

March 2, 2017

Author(s)

Richard A. Allen

Three-dimensional (3D) integration is a key enabling technology for compact, high-performance, and/or low-power electronics. This technology enables the...

Computer Code for Industrial Wireless Measurement Analysis and Scenario Generation

March 1, 2017

Author(s)

Richard Candell, Mohamed T. Hany

Computer code developed in MATLAB(R) and Python programming languages to support analysis of NIST industrial wireless measurements and scenario generation using...

Control of Nanophase Defects During Ceramic Melt Processing of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x High Tc Superconductors

February 19, 2017

Author(s)

T J. Haugan, Winnie Wong-Ng, Lawrence P. Cook, H J. Brown, L Swartzendruber

To improve the critical current density of Bi 2Sr 2CaCu 2O 8+x high temperature superconductors (HTS) in high magnetic field applications (> 1 T from 20 K to 50...

Computer Code for Tennessee Eastman Industrial Wireless Systems Performance Evaluation

February 6, 2017

Author(s)

Richard Candell

This computer code contains the Tennessee Eastman (TESIM) chemical process model to be simulated using hardware-based simulation approaches. The code is...

Beyond IRBs: Designing Ethical Review Processes for Big Data Research

January 25, 2017

Author(s)

Simson L. Garfinkel

Big Data Research is something new, a practice rooted in large-scale data collection that frequently combines aspects of research, experimentation, and...

Measurements and Scoring Procedures for Footwear Impression Comparisons

December 16, 2016

Author(s)

Martin Herman

A software system under development at NIST, called SHOECALC, will be described. It is designed to help both researchers and footwear examiners in the...

MyData API Patterns: OAuth

December 8, 2016

Author(s)

Martin Burns, David A. Wollman

The My Data initiatives are part of the Administration's efforts to empower Americans with secure access to their own personal data, and to increase citizens'...

NIST Ballistics Toolmark Research Database

December 5, 2016

Author(s)

Xiaoyu Alan Zheng, Johannes A. Soons, Robert M. Thompson

The NIST Ballistics Toolmark Research Database (NBTRD) is an open-access research database of bullet and cartridge case toolmark data. The development of the...

NIST Response to the Consultative Committee for Photometry and Radiometry (CCPR) Questionnaire on Activities in Radiometry and Photometry

November 9, 2016

Author(s)

Marla L. Dowell, Gerald T. Fraser, Maria Nadal, Yoshi Ohno

The present document summarizes recent progress in NIST radiometry and photometry research and services in the form of a reply to a questionnaire distributed by...

2015 Quality Information Framework (QIF) Standard Symposium Proceedings Forward

November 1, 2016

Author(s)

Hui-Min Huang, Bailey Squier, Curtis Brown

The Next-Generation Firefighter: The Evolution of Technology

October 14, 2016

Author(s)

Kayla A. Berger, Jacob R. Crouse, Jaden Pieper

In 2013, United States fire departments responded to around 1 240 000 Fires, accounting for 106 firefighter deaths [9][7]. These fires also resulted in 3,240...

Non-contact Surface Conductance Measurement of Graphene using Resonant Cavity

October 10, 2016

Author(s)

Jan Obrzut, Oleg A. Kirillov

The measurement of conductance by a resonant cavity involves monitoring the resonant frequency shift and change in the quality factor before and after insertion...

A Library to Enable the Modeling of Optical Imaging of Finite Multi-Line Arrays.

September 30, 2016

Author(s)

Mark Alexander Henn, Bryan M. Barnes

The dataset contains several MATLAB files and input files for the software package JCMsuite that enable the modeling of optical imaging of finite multi-line...

NIST IAD DSE Pilot Evaluation Plan

September 21, 2016

Author(s)

Peter C. Fontana, Bonnie J. Dorr, Craig S. Greenberg, Marion Le Bras

Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science February 2015-February 2016 Annual Report

September 7, 2016

Author(s)

Sharon B. Nakich, Karen Reczek

This annual report documents OSAC's program activities and accomplishments for the twelve-month period ending February, 2016. In this timeframe, OSAC has: •...

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