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Secure Hash Standard: Updated Specifications Approved and Issued as Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 180-4

Computer Security Division 2011 Annual Report

Computer Security Division 2011 Annual Report

Title III of the E-Government Act of 2002, entitled the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, requires NIST to prepare an annual public report on activities undertaken in the previous year, and planned for the coming year, to carry

IR 7816

Computer Security Division 2011 Annual Report

IR 7848

Specification for the Asset Summary Reporting Format 1.0

Instrument Control (iC) -- an open-source software to automate test equipment

Instrument Control (iC) -- an open-source software to automate test equipment

It has become common practice to automate data acquisition from programmable instrumentation and a range of different software solutions fulfill this task. Many routine measurements require sequential processing of certain tasks, for instance to adjust the

Maximum Entropy and Time-Domain Kramers-Kronig Phase Retrieval Approaches are Functionally Equivalent for CARS Micro-Spectroscopy

Maximum Entropy and Time-Domain Kramers-Kronig Phase Retrieval Approaches are Functionally Equivalent for CARS Micro-Spectroscopy

Phase retrieval methods are used to recover Raman spectra from multiplex and broadband CARS signals. Two methods are in widespread use, one based on maximum entropy (MEM), and one based on a modified time-domain Kramers-Kronig (TDKK) method. Here we

LDPC Error Correction in the Context of Quantum Key Distribution

LDPC Error Correction in the Context of Quantum Key Distribution

Secret keys can be established through the use of Quantum channels monitored through classical channels which can be thought of as being error free. Because many of the feasible implementation of the quantum channel are subject to erasures –often massive-

Comparison of the WSQ and JPEG 2000 Image Compression Algorithms On 500 ppi Fingerprint Imagery

Comparison of the WSQ and JPEG 2000 Image Compression Algorithms On 500 ppi Fingerprint Imagery

This paper presents the findings of a study conducted to compare the effects of WSQ and JPEG 2000 compression on 500 ppi fingerprint imagery at a typical operational compression rate of 0.55 bpp (bits per pixel), corresponding to an effective compression

Conference Paper

Isolating Failure-Inducing Combinations in Combinatorial Testing using Test Augmentation and Classification

Conference Paper

Combinatorial Testing of ACTS: a Case Study

Conference Paper

Combinatorial Methods for Event Sequence Testing

IREX III Supplement 1: Failure Analysis

IREX III Supplement 1: Failure Analysis

Iris recognition has the potential to be extremely accurate, but it is highly dependent on the quality of the input data. Iris occlusion, off-axis gaze, blurred images, and iris rotation are common problems that can make recognizing individuals more

Towards Modeling Effect of Packet-level TCP Dynamics on Internet Operations and Management

Towards Modeling Effect of Packet-level TCP Dynamics on Internet Operations and Management

This paper reports on work in progress on modeling of the effect of packet-level TCP congestion avoidance dynamics on flow-level Internet performance and management including buffer sizing under arriving/departing flows. The proposed model accounts for the

Systemic Risks/Benefits of Selfish Network Operations & Management in Dynamic Environment

Systemic Risks/Benefits of Selfish Network Operations & Management in Dynamic Environment

Allowing selfish agents to acquire and exploit system information has both positive and negative effects on the overall performance of resource allocation systems. The positive effect results from reduction in the uncertainty inherently present in large

Adaptive Preimage Resistance Analysis Revisited: Requirements, Subtleties and Implications

Adaptive Preimage Resistance Analysis Revisited: Requirements, Subtleties and Implications

In the last few years, the need to design new cryptographic hash functions has led to the intense study of when desired hash multi-properties are preserved or assured under compositions and domain extensions. In this area, it is important to identify the

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Adaptive Preimage Resistance Analysis Revisited: Requirements, Subtleties and Implications

IREX III - Performance of Iris Identification Algorithms

IREX III - Performance of Iris Identification Algorithms

Iris recognition has long been held as an accurate and fast biometric. In the first public evaluation of one-to-many iris identification technologies, this third activity in the Iris Exchange (IREX) program has measured the core algorithmic efficacy and

Basing Cybersecurity Training on User Perceptions

Basing Cybersecurity Training on User Perceptions

The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) will be conducting a nationwide awareness and outreach program to effect behavioral change. To be effective, an educational campaign must first understand users’ perceptions of computer and online

Conference Paper

Criteria Towards Metrics for Benchmarking Template Protection Algorithms

Guidelines for Improving Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing

Guidelines for Improving Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-144, Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing. These new guidelines, which were written by Wayne Jansen of Booz Allen Hamilton and Tim Grance of

ITL Bulletin

Guidelines for Improving Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing

A Matter of Policy

A Matter of Policy

This paper discusses system security policies. System policies are the set of rules that when implemented afford a strategy for the protection of information. The policy objectives are diverse and span the social-economic spectrum. System policies govern

Journal Article

A Matter of Policy

A Keyed Sponge Construction with Pseudorandomness in the Standard Model

A Keyed Sponge Construction with Pseudorandomness in the Standard Model

The sponge construction, designed by Bertoni, Daemen, Peeters, and Asscheis, is the framework for hash functions such as Keccak, PHOTON, Quark, and spongent. The designers give a keyed sponge construction by prepending the message with key and prove a

Improved Indifferentiability Security Bound for the JH Mode

Improved Indifferentiability Security Bound for the JH Mode

The JH hash function is one of the five fi nalists of the ongoing NIST SHA3 hash function competition. Despite several earlier attempts, and years of analysis, the indi fferentiability security bound of the JH mode has so far remained remarkably low, only

An IEEE 1588 Performance Testing Dashboard for Power Industry Requirements

An IEEE 1588 Performance Testing Dashboard for Power Industry Requirements

The numerous time synchronization performance requirements in the Smart Grid entails the need for a set of common metrics and test methods to verify the ability of the network system and its components to meet the power industry�s accuracy, reliability and

Conference Paper

Improved Indifferentiability Security Bound for the JH Mode

Conference Paper

A Keyed Sponge Construction with Pseudorandomness in a Standard Model

SP 800-126 Rev. 2

The Technical Specification for the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP): SCAP Version 1.2

Specification for WS-Biometric Devices (WS-BD)

Specification for WS-Biometric Devices (WS-BD)