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Recommendation for Applications Using Approved Hash Algorithms

August 24, 2012
Author(s)
Quynh H. Dang
Hash functions that compute a fixed-length message digest from arbitrary length messages are widely used for many purposes in information security. This document provides security guidelines for achieving the required or desired security strengths when

Computer Security Incident Handling Guide

August 6, 2012
Author(s)
Paul R. Cichonski, Thomas Millar, Timothy Grance, Karen Scarfone
Computer security incident response has become an important component of information technology (IT) programs. Security-related threats have become not only more numerous and diverse but also more damaging and disruptive. An incident response capability is

Mobile Application Device Power Usage Measurements

July 31, 2012
Author(s)
Rahul Murmuria, Jeffrey Medsger, Angelos Stavrou, Jeff Voas
Reducing power consumption has become a crucial design tenet for both mobile and other small computing devices that are not constantly connected to a power source. However, unlike devices that have a limited and predefined set of functionality, recent

What Continuous Monitoring Really Means

July 24, 2012
Author(s)
Ronald S. Ross
[Print Title: "Establishing a Secure Framework"] Recently, NIST completed a fundamental transformation of the traditional certification and accreditation process into a comprehensive, near real-time, security life cycle process as part of a Risk Management

Arithmetic Progressions on Huff Curves

July 23, 2012
Author(s)
Dustin Moody
We look at arithmetic progressions on elliptic curves known as Huff curves. By an arithmetic progression on an elliptic curve, we mean that either the x or y-coordinates of a sequence of rational points on the curve form an arithmetic progression. Previous

Evolutionary Construction of de Bruijn Sequences

July 20, 2012
Author(s)
Meltem Sonmez Turan
A binary de Bruijn sequence of order n is a cyclic sequence of period 2^n, in which each n-bit pattern appears exactly once. These sequences are commonly used in applications such as stream cipher design, pseudo-random number generation, 3-D pattern

What's Special About Cloud Security?

July 16, 2012
Author(s)
Peter M. Mell
While cloud security concerns have consistently ranked as one of the top challenges to cloud adoption, it is not clear what security issues are special with respect to cloud computing. To approach this question, we attempt to derive cloud security issues

NIST Test Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Cards

July 12, 2012
Author(s)
David A. Cooper
In order to facilitate the development of applications and middleware that support the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Card, NIST has developed a set of test PIV Cards and a supporting public key infrastructure. This set of test cards includes not

Preparing for and Responding to CA Compromise and Fraudulent Certificate Issuance

July 10, 2012
Author(s)
Paul Turner, William Polk, Elaine B. Barker
As the use of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificates (e.g., the use of Transport Layer Security [TLS] and Secure Sockets Layer [SSL]) for the security of systems has increased, the certification authorities (CAs) that issue certificates
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