This bulletin summarizes the NIST Automated Cryptographic Validation (ACV) Testing project. NIST selects and standardizes cryptographic algorithms as NIST-approved for use within the U.S. Federal Government. The Computer Security Division specifies the
Interpolation-Based Gray-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix Computation for Texture Directionality Estimation
A novel interpolation-based model for the computation of the Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) is presented. The model enables GLCM computation for any real-valued angles and offsets, as opposed to the traditional, lattice-based model. A texture
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
Transitioning to the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Version 2
The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) version 2 (v2) automates endpoint posture information collection and the incorporation of that information into network defense capabilities using standardized protocols. SCAP v2 expands the endpoint types
While a physical asset management system can tell you the location of a computer, it cannot answer questions like, "What operating systems are our laptops running?" and "Which devices are vulnerable to the latest threat?" An effective IT asset management
Quantifying Information Exposure in Internet Routing
Data sent over the Internet can be monitored and manipulated by intermediate entities in the data path from the source to the destination. For unencrypted communications (and some encrypted communications with known weaknesses), eavesdropping and man-in
On Mitigation Inefficiency of Selfish Investment in Network Recovery from High Loss SIS Infection
This paper reports on quantification and mitigation of the inefficiency of selfish investment in network recovery from Susceptible Infected Susceptible (SIS) infection in a practically important case of high losses due to infection. In this case, both
Managed Blockchain Based Cryptocurrencies with Consensus Enforced Rules and Transparency
Blockchain based cryptocurrencies are usually unmanaged, distributed, consensus-based systems in which no single entity has control. Managed cryptocurrencies can be implemented using private blockchains but are fundamentally different as the owners have
Dynamic Job Replication for Balancing Fault Tolerance, Latency, and Economic Efficiency: Work in Progress
Recent research has demonstrated benefits of replication of requests with canceling, which initiates multiple concurrent replicas of a request and uses the first successful result immediately removing the remaining replicas of the completed request from
Network Formation by Contagion Averse Agents: Modeling Bounded Rationality with Logit Learning
Economic and convenience benefits of interconnectivity drive current explosive emergence and growth of networked systems. However, as recent catastrophic contagious failures in numerous large scale networked infrastructures demonstrated, these benefits of
The current AM development environment is far from being mature. Both software applications and workflow management tools are very limited due to the lack of knowledge to support engineering decision makings. AM knowledge includes design rules, operation
The Industrial Ontologies Foundry Proof-of-Concept Project
The current industrial revolution is said to be driven by the digitization of manu-facturing that exploits connected information across all aspects of manufacturing. Standards have been recognized as an important enabler. Ontology is the next generation
A SUPER-METAMODELLING FRAMEWORK TO OPTIMIZE SYSTEM PREDICTABILITY
Statistical metamodels can robustly predict manufacturing process and engineering systems design results. Various techniques, such as Kriging, polynomial regression, artificial neural network and others, are each best suited for different scenarios that
Metrics-Driven Evaluation of Cybersecurity for Critical Railway Infrastructure
In the past couple of years, railway infrastructure has been growing more connected, resembling more of a traditional Cyber-Physical System [1] model. Due to the tightly coupled nature between the cyber and physical domains, new attack vectors are emerging
Traceable Characterization of Broadband Pulse Waveforms Suitable for Cryogenic Josephson Voltage Applications
We characterize broadband pulse waveforms using a large signal network analyzer (LSNA) and a sampling-oscilloscope, both calibrated to the same reference plane and traceable to the NIST Electro-Optic Sampling System (EOS). The waveforms under test are
Securing Wireless Infusion Pumps in Healthcare Delivery Organizations
Medical devices, such as infusion pumps, were once standalone instruments that interacted only with the patient or medical provider. However, today's medical devices connect to a variety of healthcare systems, networks, and other tools within a healthcare