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Journal Article

Open Issues in Secure DNS Deployment

Small Business Information Security: the Fundamentals

Small Business Information Security: the Fundamentals

[Superseded by NISTIR 7621 Rev. 1 (November 2016): https://www.nist.gov/node/1111801 ] For some small businesses, the security of their information, systems, and networks might not be a high priority, but for their customers, employees, and trading

Development of Domain-Specific Scenarios for Training and Evaluation of Two-Way, Free Form, Spoken Language Translation Devices

Development of Domain-Specific Scenarios for Training and Evaluation of Two-Way, Free Form, Spoken Language Translation Devices

To create effective and accurate two-way, free form, spoken language translation devices, they must be supplied with appropriate training data. The goal of the DARPA TRANSTAC (Spoken Language Communication and Translation System for Tactical Use) program

SP 800-108

Recommendation for Key Derivation Using Pseudorandom Functions (Revised)

IR 7621

Small Business Information Security: the Fundamentals

System and Network Security Acronyms and Abbreviations

System and Network Security Acronyms and Abbreviations

This report contains a list of selected acronyms and abbreviations for system and network security terms with their generally accepted or preferred definitions. It is intended as a resource for Federal agencies and other users of system and network

National Checklist Program for IT Products Guidelines for Checklist Users and Developers

National Checklist Program for IT Products Guidelines for Checklist Users and Developers

[Superseded by SP 800-70 Rev. 2 (February 2011): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=907732 ] A security configuration checklist is a series of instructions for configuring a product to a particular operational environment

SP 800-70 Rev. 1

National Checklist Program for IT Products: Guidelines for Checklist Users and Developers

IR 7581

System and Network Security Acronyms and Abbreviations

Evaluating Speech Translation Systems: Applying SCORE to TRANSTAC Technologies

Evaluating Speech Translation Systems: Applying SCORE to TRANSTAC Technologies

The Spoken Language Communication and Translation System for Tactical Use (TRANSTAC) program is a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) advanced technology research and development program. The goal of the TRANSTAC program is to demonstrate

Updated Digital Signature Standard Approved as Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)186-3

Updated Digital Signature Standard Approved as Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)186-3

This bulletin summarizes the information in Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 186-3, Digital Signature Standard (DSS). Approved in June 2009 by the Secretary of Commerce for use by federal government agencies in protecting the

A Time Synchronization Testbed to Define and Standardize Real-Time Model-Based Control Capabilities in Semiconductor Manufacturing

A Time Synchronization Testbed to Define and Standardize Real-Time Model-Based Control Capabilities in Semiconductor Manufacturing

Shrinking process tolerances due to decreasing device sizes and increasing chip complexity in semiconductor manufacturing are motivating efforts to improve methods for real-time networked process control. Prior work shows that the lack of precise time

Improving Data Quality in Embedded Sensor Systems for APC

Improving Data Quality in Embedded Sensor Systems for APC

Achieving next-generation factory (NGF) goals has been an industry challenge for APC applications to acquire a sufficient level of data quality to maximize the benefits of automation. For example, it is difficult to get accurate timestamps because sensor

Guidelines on Firewalls and Firewall Policy

Guidelines on Firewalls and Firewall Policy

Firewalls are devices or programs that control the flow of network traffic between networks or hosts employing differing security postures. This publication provides an overview of several types of firewall technologies and discusses their security

SP 800-41 Rev. 1

Guidelines on Firewalls and Firewall Policy

ITL Bulletin

Updated Digital Signature Standard (DSS) Approved as Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 186-3

Desirable Properties of Voting Systems

Desirable Properties of Voting Systems

This paper provides definitions for some desirable properties of voting systems, including auditability, ballot secrecy, incoercibility, usability and accessibility. In the context of these desirable properties, it defines the class of end-to-end

Conference Paper

Desirable Properties of Voting Systems

High-Voltage Capacitance Measurement System for SiC Power MOSFETs

High-Voltage Capacitance Measurement System for SiC Power MOSFETs

Adequate modeling of a power MOSFET is dependent on accurate characterization of the inter-electrode capacitances. With the advent of high voltage silicon carbide (SiC) power MOSFETs, it has become important to develop a measurement system that can perform

Status Report on the First Round of the SHA-3 Cryptographic Hash Algorithm Competition

Status Report on the First Round of the SHA-3 Cryptographic Hash Algorithm Competition

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the process of selecting a new cryptographic hash algorithm through a public competition. The new hash algorithm will be referred to as SHA-3 and will complement the SHA-2 hash algorithms currently

Recommendation for Digital Signature Timeliness

Recommendation for Digital Signature Timeliness

Establishing the time when a digital signature was generated is often a critical consideration. A signed message that includes the (purported) signing time provides no assurance that the private key was used to sign the message at that time unless the

SP 800-102

Recommendation for Digital Signature Timeliness

IR 7620

Status Report on the First Round of the SHA-3 Cryptographic Hash Algorithm Competition

Recommendation for EAP Methods Used in Wireless Network Access Authentication

Recommendation for EAP Methods Used in Wireless Network Access Authentication

This Recommendation specifies security requirements for authentication methods with key establishment supported by the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) defined in IETF RFC 3748 for wireless access authentications to federal networks.

Considering Discourse References in Textual Entailment Annotation

Considering Discourse References in Textual Entailment Annotation

In the 2009 Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) challenge, a Search Pilot task has been introduced, aimed at finding all the sentences in a corpus which entail a set of given hypotheses. The preparation of the data set for this task has provided an

SP 800-120

Recommendation for EAP Methods Used in Wireless Network Access Authentication

A Statistical Path Loss Model for Medical Implant Communication Channels

A Statistical Path Loss Model for Medical Implant Communication Channels

Knowledge of the propagation media is a key step toward a successful transceiver design. Such information is typically gathered by conducting physical experiments, measuring and processing the corresponding data to obtain channel characteristics. In case

Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations [includes updates through 9/14/2009]

Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations [includes updates through 9/14/2009]

[Superseded by NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 3 (August 2009 w/updates through 5/1/2010): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=903280 ] The objective of NIST SP 800-53 is to provide a set of security controls that can satisfy the breadth and

SP 800-53 Rev. 3

Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations

SP 800-85B-1

PIV Data Model Test Guidelines