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POSTED May 9, 2008: Presentations from the PIV Physical Access Control (PAC) Workshop

The presentations from the May 1, 2008 PAC Workshop are now available.

POSTED April 30, 2008: Special Publication 800-87 Revision 1 Released

NIST is pleased to announce Special Publication 800-87 (SP 800-87) Codes for the Identification of Federal and Federally-Assisted Organizations, Revision 1 - 2008. SP 800-87 Revision 1 - 2008 provides the organizational codes necessary to establish the Federal Agency Smart Credential Number (FASC-N) that is required to be included in the FIPS 201 Card Holder Unique (CHUID). Appendix A of SP 800-87 Revision 1 - 2008 lists the agency code updates incorporated in this revision.

POSTED April 8, 2008: PIV PACS Integration Workshop Announcement:

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will hold a public Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Physical Access Control Systems (PACS) Integration workshop on Thursday, May 1, 2008 at the NIST campus in Gaithersburg, MD from 9:30am to 3:30pm. The purpose of the workshop is the exchange of information among the PACS implementers, Federal agencies, and NIST. NIST will provide a briefing on SP 800-116, A Recommendation for the Use of PIV Credentials in Physical Access Control Systems (PACS), followed by a question and answer session. NIST will facilitate 10 minute individual presentations through which interested individuals may present observations to the group. All material presented will be made public. Individuals desiring to present their observations must contact Ketan Mehta (mehta_ketan@nist.gov) via email and provide an abstract and a power point slides in advance. Workshop registration is required to gain entry to the NIST facilities. Please visit http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/confpage/conflist.htm to register. The cost of registration is $50. Registration closes on April 28, 2008.

POSTED April 2, 2008: Draft Special Publication 800-116, A Recommendation for the Use of PIV Credentials in Physical Access Control Systems

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is pleased to announce a draft publication SP 800-116, A Recommendation for the Use of PIV Credentials in Physical Access Control Systems. This draft provides best practice guidelines for integrating the PIV Card with the physical access control systems (PACS) that authenticate the cardholders in Federal facilities. This draft includes recommendations for increasing the use of asymmetric key architecture and credential validation. Federal agencies and private organizations as well as individuals are invited to review the draft document and submit comments using the comment template form provided on the website. Comments should be submitted to PIV_comments@nist.gov with "Comments on Public Draft SP 800-116" in the subject line. The comment period closes at 5:00 EST (US and Canada) on May 12, 2008.

POSTED March 21, 2008: Comment Period for SP 800-73-2 has been EXTENDED

The public comment period for Draft SP 800-73-2 has been extended. Public comment are now due by April 18th 2008, 5:00 pm EST.

POSTED March 18, 2008: Track Changes Now Available for Draft Special Publication 800-73-2 (Parts 1-3)

The following documents contain the tracked changes from the first to second draft SP800-73-2. Editorial and formatting changes are not tracked. Out of the 4 parts for this document, ONLY Part 4 had NO changes made to it. Please go to the Drafts page to view Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 track changes.

POSTED March 7, 2008: Second Draft of Special Publication 800-73-2, Interfaces for Personal Identity Verification

NIST has posted a second draft of SP 800-73-2 for public comments. This draft incorporates some comments and suggestions that were received after the first public comment period had closed (see 3). The changes since the first draft include: 1) relaxation of the Global PIN security status limitations, 2) incorporation of an optional Global and PIV PIN discovery object, 3) addition of a discovery object for the PIV card application, 4) elimination of the previously proposed optional U-CHUID data object, and 5) resolutions of the first draft public comments. Please go to the DRAFTS page to view the Second Public Draft and to learn more about this draft along with where to forward comments to. A comment template form is also provided. Comments period closes on April 4th 2008.

POSTED February 22, 2008: DRAFT Special Publication 800-79-1

NIST has drafted a new version of the document “Guidelines for the Certification and Accreditation of PIV Card Issuing Organizations (SP 800-79).” The revised document is titled “Guidelines for the Accreditation of Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Card Issuers (PCI’s)”. This document, after a review and comment period, will be published as NIST SP 800-79-1. Federal agencies and private organizations as well as individuals are invited to review the draft Guidelines and submit comments to NIST by sending them to PIVaccreditation@nist.gov before March 30, 2008. Comments will be reviewed and posted on the CSRC website. All comments will be analyzed, consolidated, and used in revising the draft Guidelines before final publication. To learn more about this draft document, please visit the DRAFT PUBLICATIONS page for more details.