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The Transitioning of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Sizes
July 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
At the beginning of the century, NIST began the task of providing cryptographic key management guidance. This included lessons learned over many years of dealing with key management issues, and...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Measuring Indoor Mobile Wireless Link Quality
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates methods for link quality measurement of an indoor, time-varying wireless link. Link quality estimates are used for a number of higher-layer functions, including rate...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Windows Server 2008 Boot Manager (bootmgr) Security Policy
July 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Windows Server 2008 Boot Manager (BOOTMGR, versions 6.0.6001.18000 and 6.0.6002.18005) is the system boot manager, called by the bootstrapping code that resides in the boot sector. BOOTMGR is...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Guide to Securing Microsoft Windows XP Systems for IT Professionals: A NIST Security Configuration Checklist
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper seeks to assist IT professionals in securing Windows XP workstations, XP mobile computers, and XP computers used by telecommuters within various environments. This guidance should only...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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White Papers
Small Business Information Security: The Fundamentals
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
For some small businesses, the security of their information, systems, and networks might not be a high priority, but for their customers, employees, and trading partners it is very important. The...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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System and Network Security Acronyms and Abbreviations
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper contains a list of selected acronyms and abbreviations for system and network security terms with their generally accepted or preferred definitions. It is intended as a resource for...
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mLab: A Mobile Ad Hoc Network Test Bed
May 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Over the last few years, research in the area of Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) has focused on routing protocol performance improvements, security enhancements, power consumption optimizations,...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Commodity Security Protocols: Introduction and Integration
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors present an overview of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), a secure key exchange method based on the quantum laws of physics rather than computational complexity. They also provide an...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Generating Network Models Using the S-Metric
May 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The ability to create random models of real networks is useful for understanding the interactions in these systems. Several researchers have proposed modeling complex networks by using the node...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Leveraging a Common Development Framework and Delivery Approaches Through Effective Software Management
May 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The discipline of software engineering establishes a set of principles for designing and developing software. Organizations have applied these principles to deliver high-quality, cost-effective...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Cloud Computing-Driving Security, Performance and Quality
October 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Ubiquitous adoption of Internet technology has swung the pendulum of enterprise software design and usage back to the client-server model first introduced by terminals connected to mainframes half...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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A Low-Complexity Tree-Search Algorithm to Decode Diversity-Oriented Block Codes With Inter-Symbol Interference
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In order to contain a differential propagation delay in a block based cooperative Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) system, a guard interval can be inserted to mitigate the effect of...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Whitepapers
Improved Indifferentiability Security Bound for the JH Mode
June 7, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Indifferentiability security of a hash mode of operation guarantees the mode's resistance against all (meaningful) generic attacks. It is also useful to establish the security of protocols that...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Whitepapers
Adaptive Preimage Resistance Analysis Revisited: Requirements, Subtleties and Implications
April 16, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In the last few years, the need to design new cryptographic hash functions has led to the intense study of when desired hash multi-properties are preserved or assured under compositions and domain...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Novel Tree-Search Algorithm Versus Sphere-Decoding-Based Algorithms for MIMO System With Inter-Symbol Interference
November 21, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors firstly propose a general model to combat the Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) caused by frequency selective channels in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) system and/or by...
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DSR-Based Directional Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
December 4, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper, a Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) - based directional routing protocol is invoked for wireless ad hoc networks using directional antennas. This is designed to balance the trade-off...
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Multiple Description Video Coding Over Multiple Path Routing Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a Multiple Description (MD) video-coding scheme, which uses interlaced High Signal to Noise Ratio (H-SNR) and Low Signal to Noise Ratio (L-SNR) coded frames to produce two...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Adaptive Channel Scanning for IEEE 802.16e
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors propose an adaptive algorithm that determines the duration and frequency of channel scanning in order to facilitate the discovery of neighboring base stations and...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Power and QoS Aware Wireless Networks
December 10, 2007, 12:00am PST
The paper studies the optimal use of energy in wireless networking, the feasibility region of tasks that share a multi-access channel, and efficient algorithms for determining if a given set of...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Power Control in Multihop CSMA
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper aims at improving the power efficiency of the CSMA/CA protocol for transmission of multimedia information over multi-hop wireless channels. Using a distance dependent propagation model,...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Multi-path Multi-Channel Routing Protocol
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors present a DSR-based multi-path Routing protocol, which has been developed for transmission of Multiple Description Coded (MDC) packets in wireless ad-hoc network...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Call Admission Control for Mobile Agent Based Handoff in Wireless Mesh Networks
September 27, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) has emerged recently as a promising technology for next-generation wireless networking. In WMN, it is important to provide an efficient handoff scheme, due to the...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Design Secure and Application-Oriented VANET
February 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
Vehicular Ad hoc NETwork (VANET) is recognized as an important component of Intelligent Transportation Systems. The main benefit of VANET communication is seen in active safety systems, which...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Interference Mitigation for Body Area Networks
August 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Due to very low power communication, wireless body area networks are potentially susceptible to interference from other coexisting wireless systems including other BANs that might exist in their...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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A Joint Vehicle-Vehicle/Vehicle-Roadside Communication Protocol for Highway Traffic Safety
February 8, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, a joint vehicle-vehicle/vehicle-roadside communication protocol is proposed for cooperative collision avoiding in Vehicular Ad Hoc NEtworks (VANETs). In this protocol, emergency...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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A Comparative Analysis of BGP Anomaly Detection and Robustness Algorithms
December 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors present an evaluation methodology for comparison of existing and proposed new algorithms for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) anomaly detection and robustness. A variety of algorithms and...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Experimental Demonstration of a Detection-Time-Bin-Shift Polarization Encoding Quantum Key Distribution System
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Detection-Time-Bin-Shift (DTBS) is a scheme that uses time division multiplexing of a single photon detector between two photon bases in a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system. This scheme can...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Security Challenges in Seamless Mobility -How to "Handover" the Keys?
November 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors discuss key management challenges for seamless handovers across heterogeneous wireless networks. They focus on utilizing existing keying material from previous access...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Securing Wimax Wireless Communications
December 27, 2010, 12:00am PST
Many government and business organizations are using wireless networks, enabling their employees and contractors with wireless-enabled devices, such as smart phones, to connect to the Internet and...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Full Virtualization Technologies: Guidelines for Secure Implementation and Management
April 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Virtualization is a technique for simulating the software and the hardware upon which other software runs. Organizations adopting virtualization technologies can operate their information systems...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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A Taxonomic Analysis of Cloud Computing
May 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The cloud computing field had many advances in the last years and new classifications proliferated in a discretionary way. Despite some attempts, there is still no agreed taxonomy. This paper...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing
December 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Cloud computing can and does mean different things to different people. The common characteristics most interpretations share are on-demand scalability of highly available and reliable pooled...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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White Papers
Predictive Link Trigger Mechanism for Seamless Handovers in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
December 4, 2007, 12:00am PST
Effective and timely link-layer trigger mechanisms can significantly influence the handover performance. The handover process will not perform the correct decision and execution unless adequate...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Indifferentiability of the Hash Algorithm BLAKE
November 18, 2011, 12:00am PST
BLAKE, designed by Aumasson, Henzen, Meier, and Phan, is the one of the five SHA-3 finalists. Indifferentiability is one of well known security notions of hash functions, because it shows how...
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On The Nonlinearity of Maximum-Length NFSR Feedbacks
February 8, 2012, 12:00am PST
Linear Feedback Shift Registers (LFSRs) are the main building block of many classical stream ciphers; however due to their inherent linearity, most of the LFSR-based designs do not offer the...
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Quantize-and-Forward Relaying With M-Ary Phase Shift Keying
February 22, 2008, 12:00am PST
Using cooperative transmission, two or more single-antenna users can share their antennas to achieve spatial diversity in a slow fading channel. One relaying protocol that achieves diversity,...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Robust Cross-Layer Network Optimization for Diverse QoS Requirements: Work in Progress
July 8, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Conventional approach to cross-layer network optimization assumes elastic users adjusting their bandwidth requirements in response to the resource congestion prices. This assumption leads to...
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Modeling Affiliations in Networks
November 15, 2010, 12:00am PST
One way to help understand the structure of certain networks is to examine what common group memberships the actors in the network share. Linking actors to their common affiliations gives an...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Whitepapers
Novel Tree-Search Algorithm Versus Sphere-Decoding-Based Algorithms for MIMO System With Inter-Symbol Interference
November 21, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors firstly propose a general model to combat the Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) caused by frequency selective channels in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) system and/or by...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
Whitepapers
Adaptive Preimage Resistance Analysis Revisited: Requirements, Subtleties and Implications
April 16, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In the last few years, the need to design new cryptographic hash functions has led to the intense study of when desired hash multi-properties are preserved or assured under compositions and domain...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
Whitepapers
Improved Indifferentiability Security Bound for the JH Mode
June 7, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Indifferentiability security of a hash mode of operation guarantees the mode's resistance against all (meaningful) generic attacks. It is also useful to establish the security of protocols that...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
Whitepapers
A Low-Complexity Tree-Search Algorithm to Decode Diversity-Oriented Block Codes With Inter-Symbol Interference
May 24, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In order to contain a differential propagation delay in a block based cooperative Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) system, a guard interval can be inserted to mitigate the effect of...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
Whitepapers
Modeling Affiliations in Networks
November 15, 2010, 12:00am PST
One way to help understand the structure of certain networks is to examine what common group memberships the actors in the network share. Linking actors to their common affiliations gives an...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
Whitepapers
Robust Cross-Layer Network Optimization for Diverse QoS Requirements: Work in Progress
July 8, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Conventional approach to cross-layer network optimization assumes elastic users adjusting their bandwidth requirements in response to the resource congestion prices. This assumption leads to...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Quantize-and-Forward Relaying With M-Ary Phase Shift Keying
February 22, 2008, 12:00am PST
Using cooperative transmission, two or more single-antenna users can share their antennas to achieve spatial diversity in a slow fading channel. One relaying protocol that achieves diversity,...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
On The Nonlinearity of Maximum-Length NFSR Feedbacks
February 8, 2012, 12:00am PST
Linear Feedback Shift Registers (LFSRs) are the main building block of many classical stream ciphers; however due to their inherent linearity, most of the LFSR-based designs do not offer the...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Indifferentiability of the Hash Algorithm BLAKE
November 18, 2011, 12:00am PST
BLAKE, designed by Aumasson, Henzen, Meier, and Phan, is the one of the five SHA-3 finalists. Indifferentiability is one of well known security notions of hash functions, because it shows how...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Predictive Link Trigger Mechanism for Seamless Handovers in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
December 4, 2007, 12:00am PST
Effective and timely link-layer trigger mechanisms can significantly influence the handover performance. The handover process will not perform the correct decision and execution unless adequate...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing
December 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Cloud computing can and does mean different things to different people. The common characteristics most interpretations share are on-demand scalability of highly available and reliable pooled...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
A Taxonomic Analysis of Cloud Computing
May 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The cloud computing field had many advances in the last years and new classifications proliferated in a discretionary way. Despite some attempts, there is still no agreed taxonomy. This paper...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Full Virtualization Technologies: Guidelines for Secure Implementation and Management
April 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Virtualization is a technique for simulating the software and the hardware upon which other software runs. Organizations adopting virtualization technologies can operate their information systems...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Securing Wimax Wireless Communications
December 27, 2010, 12:00am PST
Many government and business organizations are using wireless networks, enabling their employees and contractors with wireless-enabled devices, such as smart phones, to connect to the Internet and...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Security Challenges in Seamless Mobility -How to "Handover" the Keys?
November 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors discuss key management challenges for seamless handovers across heterogeneous wireless networks. They focus on utilizing existing keying material from previous access...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Experimental Demonstration of a Detection-Time-Bin-Shift Polarization Encoding Quantum Key Distribution System
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Detection-Time-Bin-Shift (DTBS) is a scheme that uses time division multiplexing of a single photon detector between two photon bases in a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system. This scheme can...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
A Comparative Analysis of BGP Anomaly Detection and Robustness Algorithms
December 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors present an evaluation methodology for comparison of existing and proposed new algorithms for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) anomaly detection and robustness. A variety of algorithms and...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
A Joint Vehicle-Vehicle/Vehicle-Roadside Communication Protocol for Highway Traffic Safety
February 8, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, a joint vehicle-vehicle/vehicle-roadside communication protocol is proposed for cooperative collision avoiding in Vehicular Ad Hoc NEtworks (VANETs). In this protocol, emergency...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Interference Mitigation for Body Area Networks
August 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Due to very low power communication, wireless body area networks are potentially susceptible to interference from other coexisting wireless systems including other BANs that might exist in their...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Design Secure and Application-Oriented VANET
February 6, 2008, 12:00am PST
Vehicular Ad hoc NETwork (VANET) is recognized as an important component of Intelligent Transportation Systems. The main benefit of VANET communication is seen in active safety systems, which...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Call Admission Control for Mobile Agent Based Handoff in Wireless Mesh Networks
September 27, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) has emerged recently as a promising technology for next-generation wireless networking. In WMN, it is important to provide an efficient handoff scheme, due to the...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Multi-path Multi-Channel Routing Protocol
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors present a DSR-based multi-path Routing protocol, which has been developed for transmission of Multiple Description Coded (MDC) packets in wireless ad-hoc network...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Power Control in Multihop CSMA
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper aims at improving the power efficiency of the CSMA/CA protocol for transmission of multimedia information over multi-hop wireless channels. Using a distance dependent propagation model,...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Power and QoS Aware Wireless Networks
December 10, 2007, 12:00am PST
The paper studies the optimal use of energy in wireless networking, the feasibility region of tasks that share a multi-access channel, and efficient algorithms for determining if a given set of...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Adaptive Channel Scanning for IEEE 802.16e
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors propose an adaptive algorithm that determines the duration and frequency of channel scanning in order to facilitate the discovery of neighboring base stations and...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Multiple Description Video Coding Over Multiple Path Routing Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper presents a Multiple Description (MD) video-coding scheme, which uses interlaced High Signal to Noise Ratio (H-SNR) and Low Signal to Noise Ratio (L-SNR) coded frames to produce two...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
DSR-Based Directional Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks
December 4, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper, a Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) - based directional routing protocol is invoked for wireless ad hoc networks using directional antennas. This is designed to balance the trade-off...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Cloud Computing-Driving Security, Performance and Quality
October 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Ubiquitous adoption of Internet technology has swung the pendulum of enterprise software design and usage back to the client-server model first introduced by terminals connected to mainframes half...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Leveraging a Common Development Framework and Delivery Approaches Through Effective Software Management
May 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The discipline of software engineering establishes a set of principles for designing and developing software. Organizations have applied these principles to deliver high-quality, cost-effective...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Generating Network Models Using the S-Metric
May 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The ability to create random models of real networks is useful for understanding the interactions in these systems. Several researchers have proposed modeling complex networks by using the node...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Commodity Security Protocols: Introduction and Integration
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors present an overview of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), a secure key exchange method based on the quantum laws of physics rather than computational complexity. They also provide an...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
mLab: A Mobile Ad Hoc Network Test Bed
May 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Over the last few years, research in the area of Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) has focused on routing protocol performance improvements, security enhancements, power consumption optimizations,...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
System and Network Security Acronyms and Abbreviations
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper contains a list of selected acronyms and abbreviations for system and network security terms with their generally accepted or preferred definitions. It is intended as a resource for...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Small Business Information Security: The Fundamentals
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
For some small businesses, the security of their information, systems, and networks might not be a high priority, but for their customers, employees, and trading partners it is very important. The...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Guide to Securing Microsoft Windows XP Systems for IT Professionals: A NIST Security Configuration Checklist
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper seeks to assist IT professionals in securing Windows XP workstations, XP mobile computers, and XP computers used by telecommuters within various environments. This guidance should only...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Windows Server 2008 Boot Manager (bootmgr) Security Policy
July 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The Windows Server 2008 Boot Manager (BOOTMGR, versions 6.0.6001.18000 and 6.0.6002.18005) is the system boot manager, called by the bootstrapping code that resides in the boot sector. BOOTMGR is...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
Measuring Indoor Mobile Wireless Link Quality
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates methods for link quality measurement of an indoor, time-varying wireless link. Link quality estimates are used for a number of higher-layer functions, including rate...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
-
White Papers
The Transitioning of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Sizes
July 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
At the beginning of the century, NIST began the task of providing cryptographic key management guidance. This included lessons learned over many years of dealing with key management issues, and...
Provided by National Institute of Standards and Technology
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