Foreword NIST Handbook 44 was first published in 1949, having been preceded by similar handbooks of various designations and in several forms, beginning in 1918. NIST Handbook 44 is published in its entirety each year following the Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights...
Foreword This NIST IR of Selected Publications was been compiled as an interim update for a number of Good Laboratory Practices, Good Measurement Practices, Standard Operating Procedures, Statistical Techniques and Reference Tables. This interim publication was used as a reference document...
INTRODUCTION This Standard specifies a new family of functions that supplement SHA-1 and the SHA-2 family of hash functions specified in FIPS 180-4 [1]. This family, called SHA-3 (Secure Hash Algorithm-3), is based on KECCAK [2]-the algorithm1 that NIST selected as the winner of the public...
PURPOSE AND APPLICABILITY The purpose of this publication is to provide federal agencies with recommended requirements for protecting the confidentiality of CUI: (i) when the CUI is resident in nonfederal information systems and organizations; (ii) when the information systems where the CUI resides...
PURPOSE AND APPLICABILITY The purpose of Special Publication 800-30 is to provide guidance for conducting risk assessments of federal information systems and organizations, amplifying the guidance in Special Publication 800-39. Risk assessments, carried out at all three tiers in the risk management...
Preface to the 8th edition We have pleasure in introducing the 8th edition of this publication, commonly called the SI Brochure, which defines and presents the Système International d'Unités, the SI (known in English as the International System of Units). This Brochure is published as a hard copy,...
Purpose of Guide The International System of Units was established in 1960 by the 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM- see Preface). Universally abbreviated SI (from the French Le Système International d'Unités), it is the modern metric system of measurement used throughout the...
This comprehensive review of calibration provides an excellent foundation for understanding principles and applications of the most frequently performed tasks of a technician. Topics addressed include terminology, bench vs. field calibration, loop vs. individual instrument...