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Many of NIST's cybersecurity and privacy publications are posted as drafts for public comment. Comment periods are still open for the following publications. Select the publication title to access downloads, related content, and instructions for submitting comments. Your thoughtful reviews and comments are greatly appreciated and help us to improve our standards and guidance.

Also see a complete list of public drafts that includes those whose comment periods have closed.

Informed by engagement with the election community throughout 2020 and 2023, the Voter Registration Profile provides a voluntary, risk-based approach to managing cybersecurity activities and reducing cyber risks to voter registration processes and the systems that support voter registration. It is...

The service mesh has become the de facto application services infrastructure for cloud-native applications. It enables an application’s runtime functions (e.g., network connectivity, access control, etc.) through proxies that form the data plane of the service mesh. Different proxy models or data...

This publication includes the HMAC specification from Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 198-1, The Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC) (2008) and incorporates some requirements from SP 800-107r1 (Revision 1), Recommendation for Applications Using Approved Hash Algorithms...

This report summarizes the presentations and discussions at a recent workshop on semiconductor security. Participants at the in-person workshop discussed existing and emerging cybersecurity threats and mitigation techniques for semiconductors throughout their life cycle.The workshop obtained...

5G technology for broadband cellular networks will significantly improve how humans and machines communicate, operate, and interact in the physical and virtual world. 5G provides increased bandwidth and capacity, and low latency. However, professionals in fields like technology, cybersecurity, and...

5G technology for broadband cellular networks will significantly improve how humans and machines communicate, operate, and interact in the physical and virtual world. 5G provides increased bandwidth and capacity, and low latency. However, professionals in fields like technology, cybersecurity, and...

The NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released the fourth version of our preliminary draft practice guide, Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture (NIST SP 1800-35), for public comment. This publication outlines results and best practices from the NCCoE effort to work with...

The NIST SP 800-90 series of documents supports the generation of high-quality random bits for cryptographic and non-cryptographic use. SP 800-90A specifies several deterministic random bit generator (DRBG) mechanisms based on cryptographic algorithms. SP 800-90B provides guidance for the...

NIST requests comments on the second draft of the fourth revision to the four-volume suite of Special Publication 800-63, Digital Identity Guidelines. This publication presents the process and technical requirements for meeting the digital identity management assurance levels specified in each...

NIST requests comments on the second draft of the fourth revision to the four-volume suite of Special Publication 800-63, Digital Identity Guidelines. This publication presents the process and technical requirements for meeting the digital identity management assurance levels specified in each...

NIST requests comments on the second draft of the fourth revision to the four-volume suite of Special Publication 800-63, Digital Identity Guidelines. This publication presents the process and technical requirements for meeting the digital identity management assurance levels specified in each...

NIST requests comments on the second draft of the fourth revision to the four-volume suite of Special Publication 800-63, Digital Identity Guidelines. This publication presents the process and technical requirements for meeting the digital identity management assurance levels specified in each...