http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/45945-1.html
By William Jackson
GCN.com
03/11/08
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a second
draft of its specifications for “Interfaces for Personal Identity
Verification” to be used with the standard PIV card that will be issued
to all government employees and contractors working on-site.
Comments on the document, Special Publication 800-73 Rev. 2, are being
accepted until April 4.
NIST has also released final versions of two other documents in its
library of special publications on computer security: SP 800-61 Rev. 1,
titled “Computer Security Incident Handling Guide” and SP 800-28 Version
2, titled “Guidelines on Active Content and Mobile Code.”
NIST’s Computer Security Research Division has incorporated into the
current release of the PIV interface specs a number of suggestions made
on the first draft. These changes include:
* Relaxing the Global PIN security status limitations.
* Incorporating an optional Global and PIV PIN discovery object.
* Adding a discovery object for the PIV card application.
* Eliminating the previously proposed optional U-CHUID data object.
The draft is in four parts, the End-Point PIV Card Application
Namespace, Data Model and Representation; End-Point PIV Card Application
Interface; End-Point PIV Client Application Programming Interface, and
the PIV Transitional Data Model and Interfaces.
Comments should be submitted using the comment template provided on the
Web site. Comments can also be e-mailed to PIV_comments (at) nist.gov,
with “Comments on the 2nd Public Draft SP800-73-2” in the subject line,
by the close of business April 4.
The new release of the Computer Security Incident Handling Guide, first
issued in 2004, provides guidance in responding to computer security
incidents. It includes guidelines on establishing an incident response
program but focuses on detecting, analyzing, prioritizing and handling
incidents.
Guidelines on Active Content and Mobile Code gives an overview of active
content and mobile code technologies in use today, with insights for
making informed decisions on their application and treatment. Active
content refers to embedded software components in documents, such as
JavaScript, VBScript, Java applets and ActiveX controls. The document
contains information about the threats presented by mobile code and
safeguards for end user systems. The original version was released in
2001.
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