Personal Identity Verification of Federal Employees and Contractors PIV

PIV Standards and Supporting Documentation

PIV Card Specifications:

• SP 800-78-5 - Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Sizes for Personal Identity Verification 
  July 15, 2024
• SP 800-76-2 - Biometric Data Specification for Personal Identity Verification
  July 2013
• SP 800-73-5 - Interfaces for Personal Identity Verification (3 Parts)
    Part 1 of SP 800-73-5 - PIV Card Application Namespace, Data Model and Representation
    Part 2 of SP 800-73-5 -  Part 2- PIV Card Application Card Command Interface
    Part 3 of SP 800-73-5  - Part 3- PIV Client Application Programming Interface 
  July 15, 2024
• NISTIR 7676 - Maintaining and Using Key History on Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Cards
  June 2010

• White Paper - Best Practices for Privileged User PIV Authentication
  April 2016
• <SP 800-156 - Representation of PIV Chain-of-Trust for Import and Export
  May 2016
• SP 800-116 Revision 1 - A Recommendation for the Use of PIV Credentials in Physical Access Control Systems
  June 2018
• NISTIR 7863 - Cardholder Authentication for the PIV Digital Signature Key, 
  June 2015

• SP 800-85A-4 - PIV Card Application and Middleware Interface Test Guidelines (SP 800-73-4 Compliance) 
  April 2016
• * SP 800-85B - PIV Data Model Conformance Test Guidelines
  July 2006
• * DRAFT SP 800-85B-4 - PIV Data Model Conformance Test Guidelines
  August 2014

* Note: SP 800-85B adheres to the PIV cryptographic specifications in SP 800-78 and the PIV Interfaces specification in SP 800-73-1. Updates to SP 800-85B are planned once the final SP 800-73-2 is published.

• SP 800-96 - PIV Card / Reader Interoperability Guidelines
  September 2006

• SP 800-87 Revision 2 - Codes for the Identification of Federal and Federally-Assisted Organizations
  April 2018
  Please email Agency Code update requests to piv_comments@nist.gov
• SP 800-79-2 - Guidelines for the Accreditation of Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Card Issuers (PCI’s)
  July 2015

• SP 800-166 - Derived PIV Application and Data Model Test Guidelines
  June 2016
• SP 800-157 - Guidelines for Derived Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Credentials
  December 2014
• NISTIR 8055 - Derived Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Credentials (DPC) Proof of Concept Research 
  January 2016

Foundational publications are earlier work (NIST Interagency Reports - NISTIR) that demonstrated various capabilities of PIV card/system. Many of the concepts/outcomes in these NISTIRs are reflected in the current version of the PIV Standard and/or associated Special Publications.

• NISTIR 7284 - Personal Identity Verification Card Management Report
  January 2006
• SP 800-104 - A Scheme for PIV Visual Card Topography (this document is now incorporated in FIPS 201-3)
• NISTIR 7452 - Secure Biometric Match-on-Card Feasibility Report, 
  November 2007
• NISTIR 7337 - Personal Identity Verification Demonstration Summary, 
  August 2006