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Guide to Protecting Personally Identifiable Information

April 28, 2010
Author(s)
Shirley M. Radack
This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-122, Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Written by Erika McCallister, Tim Grance, and Karen Scarfone of NIST, the

Privacy-Preserving DRM

April 13, 2010
Author(s)
Radia Perlman, Charles Kaufman, Ray Perlner
This paper describes and contrasts two families of schemes that enable a user to purchase digital content without revealing to anyone what item he has purchased. One of the basic schemes is based on anonymous cash, and the other on blind decryption. In

E-mail Security: an Overview of Threats and Safeguards

April 1, 2010
Author(s)
Kevin M. Stine, Matthew A. Scholl
This publication discusses, at a high level, the ubiquitous threats facing email systems today and impresses the need to secure these systems. This article will provide high level tips and techniques for securing email systems and point to resources that

On Hash Functions Using Checksums

April 1, 2010
Author(s)
Praveen Gauruvarum, John M. Kelsey, L. Knudsen, S. Thomsen
We analyse the security of iterated hash functions that compute an input dependent checksum which is processed as part of the hash computation. We show that a large class of such schemes, including those using non-linear or even one- way checksum functions

A Report on the Privilege (Access) Management Workshop

March 30, 2010
Author(s)
Annie W. Sokol
This document is based on the discussions and conclusions of the Privilege (Access) Management Workshop held on 1-3 September, 2009 at the Gaithersburg, Maryland facilities of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), sponsored by NIST and

Data Loss Prevention

March 29, 2010
Author(s)
Simon Liu, D. Richard Kuhn
In today's digital economy, data enters and leaves enterprises' cyberspace at record rates. For a typical enterprise, millions of emails are sent and received and thousands of files are downloaded, saved or transferred via various channels or devices on a

Computer Security Division 2009 Annual Report

March 23, 2010
Author(s)
Patrick D. O'Reilly
This annual report covers the work conducted within the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division during Fiscal Year 2009. It discusses all projects and programs within the Division, staff highlights, and publications.
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