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
PIV Card and Middleware Conformance Testing:
- 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.
PIV Reader Specifications:
- 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
Derived PIV Credential for Mobile Devices:
- 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:
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
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Created May 24, 2016, Updated July 17, 2024