Perceptual Study of the Impact of Varying Frame Rate on Motion Imagery Interpretability
The development of a motion imagery (MI) quality scale, akin to the National Image Interpretibility Rating Scale (NIIRS) for still imagery, would have great value to designers and users of surveillance and other MI systems. A multi-phase study has adopted
Minimum Security Requirements for Federal Information and Information Systems
FIPS 200 is the second standard that was specified by the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). It is an integral part of the risk management framework that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed to assist
Fingerprint Identification and Mobile Handheld Devices: An Overview and Implementation
The use of mobile handheld devices within the workplace is expanding rapidly. These devices are no longer viewed as coveted gadgets for early technology adopters, but have instead become indispensable tools that offer competitive business advantages for
Collisions and Near-Collisions for Reduced-Round Tiger
We describe a collision-finding attack on 16 rounds of the Tiger hash function requiring the time for about 244 compression function invocations. This extends to a collision-finding attack on 17 rounds of the Tiger hash function in time of about 249
Guide for Developing Security Plans for Information Technology Systems
The objective of system security planning is to improve protection of information system resources. All federal systems have some level of sensitivity and require protection as part of good management practice. The protection of a system must be documented
An Empirical Analysis of IPv6 Transition Mechanism
We examine the performance of multimodal biometric authentication systems using state-of-the-art Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) fingerprint and face biometric systems on a population approaching 1,000 individuals. Majority of prior studies of multimodal
The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) is a workshop series designed to build the infrastructure necessary for large-scale evaluation of text retrieval technology. Participants in the workshops (over 100 groups in the latest TREC) have been drawn from the
Creating a Program to Manage Security Patches and Vulnerabilities: NIST Recommendations for Improving System Security
This bulletin provides information for organizational security managers who are responsible for designing and implementing security patch and vulnerability management programs and for testing the effectiveness of the programs in reducing vulnerabilities
Efficient Path-Segment Protection Utilizing Logical-ring Approach in WDM Mesh Network
This work proposes a distributed fault protection mechanism called the Dynamic-Shared Segment Protection (DSSP) algorithm for WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) mesh networks. The study explores the shared protection scheme in the network with
This report covers the work conducted within the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division during the Fiscal Year 2005. It discusses all projects and programs within the Division, staff highlights, and publications. For
Biometrics Standards ? Rising to the Challenge of Technology Innovation
For decades, biometric technologies were primarily used in law enforcement applications. Currently, they are increasingly being required in multiple public and private sector applications worldwide to authenticate a person?s identity, secure national
Technical and Economic Assessment of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
The Presidents National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace (National Strategy) directed the Secretary of Commerce to form a task force to examine the most recent iteration of the Internet Protocol, IP version 6 (IPv6). The President charged the task force with
Testing and Validation of Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Components and Subsystems for Conformance to Federal Information Processing Standard 201
This bulletin provides information about testing and validation of personal identity verification (PIV) components and subsystems for conformance to Federal Information Processing Standard 201, Personal Identification Verification of Federal Employees and
Testing and Validation of Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Components and Subsystems for Conformance to Federal Information Processing Standard 201
Codes for the Identification of Federal and Federally Assisted Organizations (NIST SP 800-87 v1.0, Jan. 2006 edition)
[Superseded by SP 800-87 v1.0 (March 2007): http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=51132 ] The Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-12 called for new standards to be adopted governing the interoperable use of identity
Personal Identity Verification Card Management Report
NIST Special Publication 800-73 ( http://piv.nist.gov ) provides technical specifications for Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards. However, it does not contain a complete card management specification for PIV systems. This Report provides an overview
We show that a well-known coin-flipping protocol is breakable in the sense that one of the parties can pre-determine the result of the coin-flip. The way in which the protocol fails is illustrative of the fact that there are insecure ways of using secure
Routing infrastructures are possibly the most vital, complex, and fragile components in the global information infrastructure. They are also the least protected from attack. In the public Internet, for example, the IP routing infrastructure comprises tens
Source-Assisted Direction Estimation Inside Buildings
We have implemented a quantum key distribution (QKD) system with polarization encoding at 850 nm over 1 km of optical fiber. The high-speed management of the bit-stream, generation of random numbers and processing of the sifting algorithm are all handled
Joint Rate Adaptation and Channel-Adaptive Relaying in 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks
Channel-adaptive relaying has recently been proposed as a means to exploit spatial and temporal diversity in multihop ad hoc networks with fading. In conjunction with appropriate routing protocols, adaptive relaying enables each forwarding node in a