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Documentation for ROC Baseline 2016

July 13, 2016
Author(s)
James R. Matey, Su L. Cheng, Patrick J. Grother, Mei L. Ngan, George W. Quinn, Elham Tabassi, Craig I. Watson
We present ROC baseline data to support the recommendations in Matey et al [6].

Representation of PIV Chain-of-Trust for Import and Export

May 20, 2016
Author(s)
Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Ketan L. Mehta, Jason Mohler, Stephen Skordinski, Steven Brady
This document provides a common XML-based data representation of a chain-of-trust record to facilitate the exchange of PIV Card enrollment data. The exchanged record is the basis to personalize a PIV Card for a transferred employee and also for service

Best Practices for Privileged User PIV Authentication

April 21, 2016
Author(s)
Hildegard Ferraiolo, David Cooper, Andrew R. Regenscheid, Karen Scarfone, Murugiah P. Souppaya
The Cybersecurity Strategy and Implementation Plan (CSIP), published by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on October 30, 2015, requires that federal agencies use Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credentials for authenticating privileged users

JPEG 2000 CODEC Certification Guidance for 1000 ppi Fingerprint Friction Ridge Imagery

April 13, 2016
Author(s)
John M. Libert, Shahram Orandi, Michael D. Garris, Frederick R. Byers, John D. Grantham
The document describes the procedure by which applications of JPEG 2000 CODECs will be evaluated with respect to conformance to the NIST guidance for compression of 1000 ppi friction ridge images as detailed in NIST Special Publication 500-289 [NIST5]

PIV Card Application and Middleware Interface Test Guidelines (SP 800-73-4 compliance)

April 13, 2016
Author(s)
David Cooper, Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Jason Mohler
NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-73 contains the technical specifications to interface with the smart card to retrieve and use the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) identity credentials. This document, SP 800-85A, contains the test assertions and test