U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Search Publications

NIST Authors in Bold

Displaying 151 - 175 of 204

Secure Biometric Match-on-Card Feasibility Report

November 30, 2007
Author(s)
David A. Cooper, Trung-Hung Dang, Philip Lee, William I. MacGregor, Ketan Mehta
FIPS 201, "Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors," and its associated special publications define a method to perform biometric match-off-card authentication of a PIV cardholder when the PIV card is inserted into a

TMPS: Ticket-Mediated Password Strengthening

February 14, 2020
Author(s)
John M. Kelsey, Dana Dachman-Soled, Meltem Sonmez Turan, Sweta Mishra
… a TMPS scheme, requiring only hash functions, CCA2-secure encryption, and blind signatures. We provide several variant …

HMFEv - An Efficient Multivariate Signature Scheme

June 28, 2017
Author(s)
Albrecht R. Petzoldt, Ming-Shing Chen, Jintai Ding, Bo-Yin Yang
… scheme by applying the Vinegar Variation to the MultiHFE encryption scheme of Chen et al.. We show both theoretically …

Demonstration of an Active Quantum Key Distribution Network

August 1, 2006
Author(s)
Xiao Tang, Lijun Ma, Alan Mink, Anastase Nakassis, Hai Xu, Barry J. Hershman, Joshua Bienfang, David H. Su, Ronald Boisvert, Charles W. Clark, Carl J. Williams
… resulting cryptographic keys were used for one-time pad encryption of real time video signals. In this work, we …

Guidelines for Security of Computer Applications

June 30, 1980
Author(s)
Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology National Bureau of Standards
… authorization, journalling, variance detection, and encryption are discussed as well as security-related …

Guide to SSL VPNs

July 1, 2008
Author(s)
Sheila E. Frankel, Paul Hoffman, Angela Orebaugh, Richard Park
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) provide users with secure remote access to an organization's resources. An SSL VPN consists of one or more VPN devices to which users connect using their Web browsers. The traffic between the Web

Security and Confidence in IT Products

April 1, 2000
Author(s)
E Roback
… and 2) that the FIPS-approved algorithms (e.g., for encryption or digital signatures) are correctly implemented. …

The NIST Hash Competition

May 20, 2008
Author(s)
William E. Burr
… Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), algorithm, competition, …

Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework Standardization

July 3, 2015
Author(s)
Fred Herr, Fernando L. Podio
Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework (CBEFF) provides a standardized set of definitions and procedures that support the interchange of biometric data in standard data structures called CBEFF biometric information records (BIRs). CBEFF permits

Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework Standardization

February 13, 2009
Author(s)
Fernando L. Podio, Fred Herr
Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework (CBEFF) provides a standardized set of definitions and procedures that support the interchange of biometric data in standard data structures called CBEFF biometric information records (BIRs). CBEFF permits

Guidelines for Media Sanitization

September 1, 2006
Author(s)
Richard L. Kissel, Matthew A. Scholl, Steven Skolochenko, Xiang Li
… With the more prevalent use of increasingly sophisticated encryption, an attacker wishing to gain access to an …
Displaying 151 - 175 of 204
Was this page helpful?