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Updates 2016

NIST Released NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8055, Derived Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Credentials (DPC) Proof of Concept Research
January 22, 2016

NIST announces the final release of NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8055, Derived Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Credentials (DPC) Proof of Concept Research. This report documents proof of concept research performed by NIST to determine how DPCs could be used to PIV-enable mobile devices and provide multi-factor authentication for an organization's mobile device users. This report captures DPC requirements, proposes an architecture that supports these requirements, and describe how this architecture could be implemented and operated. 

Created December 21, 2016, Updated June 22, 2020