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NIST releases PIV software packages

Thursday, July 10, 2008

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released two demonstration software packages that show how Personal Identity Verification cards can be used with Windows and Linux systems to perform logon, digital signing and verification as well as other services.

The demonstration software, written in C++, is designed to assist software developers, system integrators and computer security professionals as they develop products for the FIPS 201 standard.

“We wanted to provide IT professionals with a model of one way that PIV cards can be used to support authentication to federal information systems,” explains Donna Dodson, deputy director of the NIST Computer Security Division. “Our objective was not to say ‘do the steps this way,’ but to show an example of how you might proceed.”

The software is available here. [end] 

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