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NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Status Report on the Second Round of the Additional Digital Signature Schemes for the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process

Author(s)
Dustin Moody, Gorjan Alagic, Maxime Bros, Pierre Ciadoux, Quynh Dang, Thinh Dang, John Kelsey, Jacob Lichtinger, Yi-Kai Liu, Carl Miller, Rene Peralta, Ray Perlner, Angela Robinson, Hamilton Silberg, Daniel Smith-Tone, Noah Waller
NIST is in the process of evaluating public-key digital signature algorithms for potential standardization to protect sensitive information into the foreseeable...

The National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank Specimen Inventory Report

Author(s)
Jennifer Ness, Debra Ellisor, Jennifer Hoguet, Amanda Moors, Amanda Capuano, Rebecca Pugh
This report provides a brief background of the National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank (NMMTB), information on the composition of the collection, policies for...

NIST First Call for Multi-Party Threshold Schemes

Author(s)
Luis Teixeira D'Aguiar Norton Brandao, Rene Peralta
This document calls for public submissions of multi-party threshold schemes, and other related crypto-systems, to support the United States National Institute...

Database of Diffusion MRI Brain Scans at 64 mT and 3 T

Author(s)
Andrew Dienstfrey, Zydrunas Gimbutas, Joe Chalfoun, Adele Peskin, Kalina Jordanova, Kathryn Keenan, Stephen Ogier
Low-field magnetic resonance imaging offers the promise to significantly increase access to in vivo soft tissue imaging. The technology is both portable and low...

Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

Author(s)
Stephen Quinn, Julie Anne Chua, Nahla Ivy, Robert Gardner, Karen Scarfone, Matthew Smith, Greg Witte
The increasing frequency, creativity, and severity of cybersecurity attacks means that all enterprises should ensure that cybersecurity risk is receiving...

Validation in Forensic Science: Guiding Principles for the Collection and Use of Validation Data

Author(s)
Henry Swofford, Steven Lund, Barbara Guttman, Erica Romsos, Johannes Soons, Melissa Taylor, Hariharan Iyer, Peter Vallone, John Jones, Vincent Desiderio, John Butler, Sandra Koch, Robert Thompson, Gregory Fiumara, Edward Sisco, Kelly Sauerwein, Allison Getz, Robert Ramotowski
This document provides guidance to the forensic science community on method validation. Building on the definition of validation in ISO/IEC 17025, it explores...

Safeguarding International Science: Research Security Framework

Author(s)
Gregory Strouse, Claire Saundry, Timothy Wood, Philip Bennett, Mary Bedner, Jeremy Schultz
The U.S. science and research ecosystem retains its leadership by actively engaging with the global community through the conduct of mutually beneficial...

Environmental Measurements: A Needs Assessment

Author(s)
Julia Marrs, David Allen, Gerald Fraser
A summary is provided of the presentations, discussion, and findings from a two-and-a-half-day workshop on environmental measurements focusing on needs for new...

Report on the May 2025 NIST Measurement Week: Realization of an OSAC draft Interim Performance Assessment for Terrestrial Laser Scanners Used by Law Enforcement Agencies

Author(s)
Balasubramanian Muralikrishnan, Katharine Shilling, Mary Gregg, Vincent Lee, Jason Keller, Erin Casey, Eugene Liscio, Bryon O'Neil, Mike Russ, Toby Terpstra
This report describes a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) testing event, the NIST Measurement Week, held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Single-photon Sources and Detectors Dictionary

Author(s)
Joshua Bienfang, Thomas Gerrits, Paulina Kuo, Alan Migdall, Sergey Polyakov, Oliver Slattery
The intention of this dictionary is to define relevant terms and metrics used in the characterization of single-photon detectors and sources with the goal to...
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