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- (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies...
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- Absolute Time Corrector 7.5 (Windows)
- Absolute Time Corrector is a Windows 9X/NT/2000/XP/2003 program, designed to provide the exact time to local and network computers based on the time standard set forth by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST. Absolute Time Corrector queries NIST timeservers using the Internet and then compares NIST time to...
- Software downloads 2009-10-18
- Report details action plan for smart grid standards
- It shouldn't surprise you to hear that the 90-page smart grid standards document released in late September by the U.S. Commerce Department lists no fewer than 80 standards that are vying for some role in the nation's smart grid infrastructure. The analysis ("NIST Framework and Roadmap for...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Getting smarter about the smart grid. Standards group to tackle interoperability.
- OASIS aka the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is forming a new committee that will focus on creating Web services models for things such as exchanging dynamic pricing, reliability and emergency signal alerts across the smart grid. The group is called the OASIS Energy...
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- The Transitioning of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Sizes
- 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 attempts to encourage the definition and implementation of appropriate key management procedures, to use algorithms that adequately protect sensitive information,...
- White papers 2009-07-02
- Got some opinions about smart grid technology? U.S. Commerce Department seeks feedback
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, part of the U.S. Commerce Department of Commerce, has published a lengthy report detailing its notions about what should be included in the U.S. smart grid. Here's a quick excerpt from the summary: "The greatest benefit from the smart...
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Basic transistor flaw could hobble chip design
- Basic transistor flaw could hobble chip designNist?Since when does an acronym become a word? The article throughout uses "Nist" instead of "NIST" and that just seems wrong.RE: Basic transistor flaw could hobble chip designObviously the diametric flow of the transistors' compulsion modules are being chopped into negative intervals, thereby reversing...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-29
- Measuring Indoor Mobile Wireless Link Quality
- 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 adaptation, routing, and topology control. The objective is to rapidly and efficiently estimate the current reliability of an RF link in terms of...
- White papers 2009-04-24
- Ensuring FISMA Compliance: Integrating Forensics and Incident Response as Mandated by NIST SP 800-86
- The Federal Information Security Management Act FISMA of 2002 mandates that federal agencies must establish incident response capabilities (44 U.S.C. ยง3544 b(7)). FISMA requires that federal agencies implement an incident response capability consistent with the guidelines and standards established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST (44 U.S.C....
- White papers 2009-04-20
- New atomic clock loses only a second every 300 million years
- The quest to create the perfect scientific timepiece has led to the development of an atomic clock that researchers from JILA claim to be fifty percent more accurate than results reported last year. JILA, is a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Federal Desktop Core Configuration Compliance
- It is essential to understand that the FDCC is a detailed extension of a subset of the general security requirements previously imposed by Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 FISMA. In fact, FDCC presupposes that an implementing agency has already complied with the more general and fundamental network security...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Facial recognition systems for border security
- Facial recognition systems are used around the world to check very quickly if an individual's photo appears in a database of known or suspected criminals. Unfortunately, the systems often acquire poor facial images in real-world environments such as airports. Now, researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology...
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Why NIST Certification Is Important to Your Company
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology defines the standard for strong encryption, and provides a rigorous testing process for software vendors. This paper discusses why this is important to Enterprise security. This paper is designed to introduce the Advanced Encryption Standard AES and how it is used to secure...
- White papers 2008-07-28
- xbasics Ulinzi 1 (Windows)
- xbasics Ulinzi is a new Information Assurance tool focusing exclusively on FISMA. It implements the first two major steps needed to be accomplished for any successful FISMA Information Assurance effort: the Security Categorization of the given information system and the analysis and development of a compliant set of Security Controls...
- Software downloads 2008-06-02
- Global Time Synchronizer 2.0.0.2 (Windows)
- Global Time Synchronizer is a timekeeping tool with many features including the ability to modify the look of your standard desktop clock and an easy-to-use, convenient interface that uses skins. It's extremely accurate because it synchronizes with the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST atomic timeservers. Version 2.0.0.2 is...
- Software downloads 2008-02-20
- Can government-funded open source make Coverity obsolete?
- Some government-funded open source offers an alternative bug-fixing approach to that used by Coverity, whom we wrote about yesterday. The NIST, working with researchers at UT-Arlington, plan to release open source code for what they call automated "combinatorial" testing. While Coverity's software tests lines...
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Lasers to guide your car?
- Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST have developed a laser-based system to improve the performance of car collision warning systems. The U.S. Department of Transportation DOT also worked on this project. And the automotive industry will be able to use this technology to 'accelerate the development...
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Clock Player 1.4 (Windows)
- This desktop clock changes shape, comes with dozens of schemes, has alarms, post-it notes, and NIST time sync. As an added bonus, it also tells time. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Software downloads 2007-11-28
- ClockWatch Star Sync 4.1 (Windows)
- ClockWatch Star Sync is a tool that provides the total solution for enterprise-wide time synchronization over the network. The ClockWatch Star Sync acquires precise time from GPS, NIST, or a dial-up time service and makes the correct time available over the local network using the Network Time Protocol NTP. The...
- Software downloads 2007-11-27
- New nanotechnology fabrication techniques
- A recent American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac briefly describes an important advance toward industrial-scale production of nanodevices (scroll down to item #4). With this new technique, 'zinc oxide nanowires are grown in the exact positions where nanodevices later will be fabricated, in a way that involves a minimum number of...
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- HS TimeSync 1.6 (Windows)
- TimeSync will get the current time from a NIST server and adjusts the PC clock if necessary with an accuracy that is within a few seconds. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Software downloads 2007-11-13
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