NIST’s Computer Security Division announces the release of 3 documents & 1 update to Special Publication already published.  See below for details --

 

1. Draft Special Publication 800-73 -3 Interfaces for Personal Identity Verification (4 Parts)

       Pt. 1- End Point PIV Card Application Namespace, Data Model and Representation

       Pt. 2- PIV Card Application Interface

       Pt. 3- PIV Client Application Programming Interface

       Pt. 4- The PIV Transitional Data Model and Interfaces

 

To learn more about this draft document, please visit the Drafts page on the CSRC website for full details:

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsDrafts.html#800-73-3

 

 

2. Draft Special Publication 800-38E, Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: The XTS-AES Mode for Confidentiality on Block-Oriented Storage Devices has been released and is available for review and comment.

 

To learn more about this draft document, please visit the Drafts page on CSRC website for full details:

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsDrafts.html#SP-800-38-E

 

 

3. NIST Interagency Report (IR) 7611, Use of ISO/IEC 24727 -- Service Access Layer Interface for Identity (SALII): support for development and use of interoperable identity credentials is now available.

 

URL to read announcement of this publication’s release:

http://csrc.nist.gov/news_events/index.html#aug14

 

Link to NIST IR page to this document:

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsNISTIRs.html#nistir7611

 

 

4. Special Publication 800-53 Revision 3 was updated last Friday to include an errata page, and all the supporting files were also updated and uploaded Friday, August 14.

The following are the files (links) that were updated:

sp800-53-rev3-final-errata.pdf                   (SP 800-53 Rev. 3 document)

800-53-rev3_final-markup_final-publicdraft-to-final-updtpdf              (Markup copy from final public draft to final SP)

800-53-rev3-final_markup-rev2-to-rev3.pdf              (markup copy from Rev. 2 to Rev. 3)

  sp800-53-rev3-annex1-updt.pdf              (Annex 1)

  sp800-53-rev3-annex2-updt.pdf              (Annex 2)

  sp800-53-rev3-annex3-updt.pdf              (Annex 3)

 

 

URL to Special Publication 800-53 Rev. 3 supporting documents:

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsSPs.html#800-53_Rev3