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Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors

Published

Author(s)

William I. MacGregor, Ketan Mehta

Abstract

[Superseded by FIPS 201-2(August 2013): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=914530] This document was developed to satisfy the requirements of HSPD-12, approved by the Secretary of Commerce, and issued on March 2006. This change notice provides changes to the graphics on the back of the PIV card and the ASN.1 encoding of NACI indicator. [Includes Change Notice 1 of June 23, 2006] [Supersedes FIPS 201 (March 2006): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=150207]
Citation
Federal Inf. Process. Stds. (NIST FIPS) - 201-1
Report Number
201-1

Keywords

Personal Identity Verification, PIV Card, HSPD-12

Citation

MacGregor, W. and Mehta, K. (2006), Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors, Federal Inf. Process. Stds. (NIST FIPS), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created June 26, 2006, Updated January 27, 2020