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SP 800-56C

Recommendation for Key Derivation through Extraction-then-Expansion

US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap Volume I Release 1.0 (Draft) High - Priority Requirements to Further USG Agency Cloud Computing Adoption

US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap Volume I Release 1.0 (Draft) High - Priority Requirements to Further USG Agency Cloud Computing Adoption

Origin of Electrical Signals for Plasma Etching Endpoint Detection

Origin of Electrical Signals for Plasma Etching Endpoint Detection

Electrical signals are used for endpoint detection in plasma etching, but the origin of the electrical changes observed at endpoint is not known. They may be caused by changes in the gas-phase densities of etch products and reactants or by changes in

Uncertainties of Measures in Speaker Recognition Evaluation

Uncertainties of Measures in Speaker Recognition Evaluation

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Speaker Recognition Evaluations (SRE) are an ongoing series of projects conducted by NIST. In the NIST SRE, speaker detection performance is measured using a detection cost function, which is

Ocular and Iris Recognition Baseline Algorithm

Ocular and Iris Recognition Baseline Algorithm

Due to its distinctiveness, the human eye is a popular biometricv feature used to identity a person with high accuracy. The Grand Challenge in biometrics is to have an effective algorithm for subject verification or identification under a broad range of

Service Model Driven Variations in Security Measures for Cloud Environments

Service Model Driven Variations in Security Measures for Cloud Environments

With the increasing adoption of cloud computing service models - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS), proper implementation of adequate and appropriate security protection measures has become a

Conference Paper

Service Model Driven Variations in Security Measures for Cloud Environments

Mean Value Formulas for Twisted Edwards Curves

Mean Value Formulas for Twisted Edwards Curves

R. Feng and H.Wu recently established a certain mean-value formula for the coordinates of the n-division points on an elliptic curve given inWeierstrass form (A mean value formula for elliptic curves, 2010, available at http://eprint.iacr.org/2009/586.pdf )

An Efficient Target Monitoring Scheme with Controlled Node Mobility for Sensor Networks

An Efficient Target Monitoring Scheme with Controlled Node Mobility for Sensor Networks

This paper is concerned with target monitoring using a network of collaborative mobile sensors. The objective is to compute (online) the desired sensing and communication radii of sensors as well as their location at each time instant, such that a set of

Data Dependency on Measurement Uncertainties in Speaker Recognition Evaluation

Data Dependency on Measurement Uncertainties in Speaker Recognition Evaluation

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been conducting an ongoing series of Speaker Recognition Evaluations (SRE). Speaker detection performance is measured using a detection cost function defined as a weighted sum of the

Journal Article

Mean Value Formulas for Twisted Edwards Curves

The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (Enhancing Online Choice, Efficiency, Security, and Privacy through Standards)

The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (Enhancing Online Choice, Efficiency, Security, and Privacy through Standards)

Dear Password, It’s time for you to retire. You’ve served us well, but the reality is that you’re woefully outdated and fundamentally insecure. Moreover, our reliance on you is making it difficult to move some very interesting and valuable types of

Mobile-App Addiction: Threat to Security?

Mobile-App Addiction: Threat to Security?

Giving individuals this kind of information processing power, along with unprecedented connectivity, might be the single most impressive technical achievement of the 21st century. Nobody knows what the full impact of this transformation will be, but it's

"Just Try"

"Just Try"

Integrating jQuery with the 3D Descriptive Markup of X3DOM

Integrating jQuery with the 3D Descriptive Markup of X3DOM

This paper describes a number of techniques using jQuery to take advantage of the 3D descriptive markup implemented by X3DOM. X3DOM is a project of the Web3D Consortium, primarily being implemented by staff at Fraunhoffer IGD to provide 3D descriptive

A Trustful Authentication and Key Exchange Scheme (TAKES) for Ad Hoc Networks

A Trustful Authentication and Key Exchange Scheme (TAKES) for Ad Hoc Networks

This paper presents a new public key distribution scheme adapted to ad hoc networks called TAKES for Trustful Authentication and Key Exchange Scheme. Its originality lies in performing authentication and key distribution with no need for a trusted

Report on the Third Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE 2010)

Report on the Third Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE 2010)

The NIST Software Assurance Metrics And Tool Evaluation (SAMATE) project conducted the third Static Analysis Tool Exposition (SATE) in 2010 to advance research in static analysis tools that find security defects in source code. The main goals of SATE were

PFTII Report Plain and Rolled Fingerprint Matching with Vendor Proprietary Template

PFTII Report Plain and Rolled Fingerprint Matching with Vendor Proprietary Template

This report is an extension of the “Two Finger Matching with Vendor SDK Matches” [1] which evaluated the accuracy of matching two plain fingers (right index and left index) with vendor proprietary fingerprint templates. This study is based on NIST’s

Continuous Monitoring of Information Security: An Essential Component of Risk Management

Continuous Monitoring of Information Security: An Essential Component of Risk Management

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-137, Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) for Federal Information Systems and Organizations. The guide helps organizations develop an ISCM strategy and

ITL Bulletin

Continuous Monitoring of Information Security: An Essential Component of Risk Management

Security Automation from a NIST Perspective

Security Automation from a NIST Perspective

Security automation can harmonize the vast amounts of information technology (IT) data into coherent, comparable information streams that inform timely and active management of diverse IT systems. Through the creation of internationally recognized

Journal Article

Security Automation

Analysis of Advanced Metering over a Wide Area Cellular Network

Analysis of Advanced Metering over a Wide Area Cellular Network

This paper presents a framework for analysis of the coverage and capacity of advanced metering over a wide area cellular network. The coverage analysis predicts the maximum cell size subject to an outage criterion, and the capacity analysis predicts the

In Situ Gas Phase Diagnostics for Titanium Nitride Atomic Layer Deposition

In Situ Gas Phase Diagnostics for Titanium Nitride Atomic Layer Deposition

This report describes the performance of a technique for the simultaneous, rapid measurement of major gas phase species present during titanium nitride thermal atomic layer deposition involving tetrakis(dimethylamido) titanium (TDMAT) and ammonia. In this

Real-time Feedback for Usable Fingerprint Systems

Real-time Feedback for Usable Fingerprint Systems

Compared with traditional password and other identification methods, biometrics like face, iris, and fingerprint for automatic personal identification/verification have many advantages, and are increasingly gaining popularity in all kinds of applications

Radiation, Multimode Propagation, and Substrate Modes in W-Band CPW Calibrations

Radiation, Multimode Propagation, and Substrate Modes in W-Band CPW Calibrations

We investigate the degradation of the accuracy of coplanar waveguide calibration standards at higher frequencies due to multi-mode propagation, substrate modes, and radiation. Based on a typical calibration substrate, we investigate these effects and their

COMPARISON OF TWO DIMENSION-REDUCTION METHODS FOR NETWORK SIMULATION MODELS

COMPARISON OF TWO DIMENSION-REDUCTION METHODS FOR NETWORK SIMULATION MODELS

Experimenters characterize the behavior of simulation models for data communications networks by measuring multiple responses under selected parameter combinations. The resulting multivariate data may include redundant responses reflecting aspects of a

The Technical Specification for the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP): SCAP Version 1.2 [includes updates through 3-19-2012]

The Technical Specification for the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP): SCAP Version 1.2 [includes updates through 3-19-2012]

This document provides the definitive technical specification for version 1.2 of the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP). SCAP consists of a suite of specifications for standardizing the format and nomenclature by which information about software

Specification for the Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) Version 1.2

Specification for the Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) Version 1.2

This report specifies the data model and Extensible Markup Language (XML) representation for the Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) Version 1.2. An XCCDF document is a structured collection of security configuration rules for

Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) for Federal Information Systems and Organizations

Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) for Federal Information Systems and Organizations

The purpose of this guideline is to assist organizations in the development of a continuous monitoring strategy and the implementation of a continuous monitoring program providing visibility into organizational assets, awareness of threats and