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Quantum Probability Estimation for Randomness with Quantum Side Information

June 12, 2018

Author(s)

Emanuel H. Knill, yanbao zhang, Honghao Fu

We develop a quantum version of the probability estimation framework [arXiv:1709.06159] for randomness generation with quantum side information. We show that...

Final Report for CCQM-K6.2: Determination of Total Cholesterol in Human Serum

June 7, 2018

Author(s)

Stephen Wise, Karen W. Phinney, David L. Duewer

Cholesterol is one of the most frequently measured substances in human blood/serum to assist in assessing the health status of individuals. Because of its...

pyPRISM Documentation

May 11, 2018

Author(s)

Tyler B. Martin, Thomas E. Gartner, Ronald L. Jones, Chad R. Snyder, Arthi Jayaraman

pyPRISM Tutorial

May 11, 2018

Author(s)

Tyler Martin, Thomas E. Gartner, Ronald Jones, Chad Snyder, Arthi Jayaraman

Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Version 1.1

April 16, 2018

Author(s)

Matthew Barrett

This publication describes a voluntary risk management framework ("the Framework") that consists of standards, guidelines, and best practices to manage...

Quantifying the post-quantum security-margin of popular block ciphers

March 27, 2018

Author(s)

Yi-Kai Liu, Brittanney Amento-Adelmann, Markus Grassl, Brandon Langenberg, Eddie Schoute, Rainer Steinwandt

Mounting an exhaustive key search against a block cipher with Grover's algorithm requires the implementation of the target cipher on a quantum computer. We...

Public Safety User Interface R&D Summit Report

March 16, 2018

Author(s)

Scott A. Ledgerwood, Marc Leh

The User Interface Roadmap R&D Summit allowed PSCR stakeholders to build on the findings published in the recent Public Safety User Interface R&D Roadmap. It...

PSCR Highly Mobile Deployable Networks R&D Summit Report

February 23, 2018

Author(s)

Maxwell K. Maurice, Samuel L. Ray, Marc Leh

The Public Safety Communications Research Program (PSCR) convened over 85 stakeholders at the Department of Commerce Boulder, CO campus to discuss the...

2017 TRECVID Workshop: Surveillance Event Detection (SED) Retrospective Task Overview

January 25, 2018

Author(s)

Jonathan G. Fiscus, Martial Michel

This presentation contains the Surveillance Event Detection (SED) Retrospective Task summary and results of the TRECVID '17 evaluation. In this 10th year of the...

The enigmatic vitrification at the ancient hillfort Broborg and its utilization as an analogue for nuclear waste glass.

January 1, 2018

Author(s)

Jamie L. Weaver, Rolf Sjoblom, Eva Hjarthner-Holdar, Carolyn Pearce, Erik Ogenhall, Mia Englund, John McCloy, David Peeler, Albert Kruger

Although the modern understanding of chemistry dates back only around 300 years, many of the processes and products used today were actually originally...

2017 TRECVID MULTIMEDIA EVENT DETECTION EVALUATION PLAN

November 30, 2017

Author(s)

David M. Joy, Jonathan G. Fiscus

TRECVID 2017 Video to Text Description

November 20, 2017

Author(s)

Asad Butt, George Awad, Alan Smeaton

Electronic Version of the 1998 CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants

November 7, 2017

Author(s)

Barry N. Taylor, Peter J. Mohr

The 1998 CODATA recommended values of the fundamental physical constants have been derived by P.J. Mohr and B.N. Taylor of the NIST Physics Laboratory under the...

Process Document for the NIST List of Certified Devices

October 24, 2017

Author(s)

Jason D. Kahn

The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 defined responsibilities for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in regards to...

NSRL Kaspersky dataset documentation

October 23, 2017

Author(s)

Alexander J. Nelson

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Software Reference Library (NSRL) has created curated releases of the Reference Data Set (RDS...

Phase Retrieval Without Small-Ball Probability Assumptions: Recovery Guarantees for PhaseLift

September 28, 2017

Author(s)

Yi-Kai Liu, Felix Krahmer

We study the problem of recovering an unknown vector x in R^n from measurements of the form y_i = |a_i^T x|^2 (for i=1,...,m), where the vectors a_i in R^n are...

Advancements in Spintronics

September 25, 2017

Author(s)

Hideo Ohno, Mark D. Stiles, Bernard Dieny

Spintronics is the concept of using the spin degree of freedom to control electrical current to expand the capabilities of electronic devices. Over the last 10...

CCQM K132 Low-Polarity Analytes in a Biological Matrix: Vitamin D Metabolites in Human Serum

September 15, 2017

Author(s)

Stephen Wise, Susan Tai, David L. Duewer

Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that occurs primarily in two forms, vitamin D2 and vitamin D3. Vitamin D3 is produced naturally when skin is exposed to UV...

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...

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