In August 2004 NIST published a novel measure of fingerprint image quality, which is designed to predict performance of minutia-based fingerprint matching systems. The definition and methodology of NIST Fingerprint Image Quality (NFIQ) is documented in [1] and its implementation is publicly available; but subject to US export control laws as part of NIST Fingerprint Image Software 2 (NFIS2) dis...

The biosynthesis, immunity and regulation of nisin, a lanthionine-containing antimicrobial peptide produced by Lactococcus lactis, is encoded by two gene clusters, nisA/ZBTCIPRK and nisFEG. The mutant strain LAC46 with a deletion in the translocator gene nisT could not secrete nisin but nisin activity was detected from cell lysates. The nisT mutation was complemented by a NisT-expression plasmi...

This paper describes our recent efforts in exploring effective discriminative features for speaker recognition. Recent researches have indicated that the appropriate fusion of features is critical to improve the performance of speaker recognition system. In this paper we describe our approaches for the NIST 2006 Speaker Recognition Evaluation. Our system integrated the cepstral GMM modeling, ce...

The Trade Act of 1988 created the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) from the National Bureau of Standards (NBS). In addition to explicitly defining and reconfirming the traditional measurement services, the law assigned new responsibilities to NIST to assist U.S. industry in capitalizing on new technologies developed in the U.S. scientific and technical community at a faster...

NIST SP800-22 (2010) proposed the state of the art statistical testing techniques for testing the quality of (pseudo) random generators. However, it is easy to construct natural functions that are considered as GOOD pseudorandom generators by the NIST SP800-22 test suite though the output of these functions is easily distinguishable from the uniform distribution. This paper proposes solutions t...

We report the first accuracy evaluation of NIST-F2, a second-generation laser-cooled caesium fountain primary standard developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with a cryogenic (liquid nitrogen) microwave cavity and flight region. The 80 K atom interrogation environment reduces the uncertainty due to the blackbody radiation shift by more than a factor of 50. Also, ...

GCM is used in a vast amount of security protocols and is quickly becoming the de facto mode of operation for block ciphers due to its exceptional performance. In this paper we analyze the NIST standardized version (SP 800-38D) of GCM, and in particular the use of short tag lengths. We show that feedback of successful or unsuccessful forgery attempt is almost always possible, contradicting the ...

The national responsibilities assigned to the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) early in the last century for providing measurement assistance and service are carried out today by the four programs that comprise the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Office of Measurement Services (OMS). They are the Calibration Program (CP), the Standard Reference Materials Program (SRMP), ...

Accurate values for occurrence probabilities of the template used in the overlapping template matching test included in NIST randomness test suite (NIST SP800-22) have been analyzed. The inaccurate values used in the NIST randomness test suite cause significant difference of pass rate. When the inaccurate values are used and significance level is set to 1%, the experimental mean value of pass r...