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PIV Standards & Supporting Documents

FIPS 201-1 Change Notice, Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors

PIV Card Specifications:

  • 2nd DRA FT SP 800-73-2 - Interfaces for Personal Identity Verification (4 parts):
         1- End-Point PIV Card Application Namespace, Data Model and Representation
         2- End-Point PIV Card Application Interface
         3- End-Point PIV Client Application Programming Interface
         4- The PIV Transitional Data Model and Interfaces
  • SP 800-73-1 - Interfaces for Personal Identity Verification
    April 2006 (542 KB) | Errata Sheet
  • NISTIR 7284 - Personal Identity Verification Card Management Report
    January 2006 (357 KB)
  • SP 800-76-1 - Biometric Data Specification for Personal Identity Verification
    January 2007 (717 KB)
  • SP 800-78-1 - Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Sizes for Personal Identity Verification
    August 2007 (205 KB)
  • SP 800-104 - A Scheme for PIV Visual Card Topography
    June 2007 (122 KB)

PIV Applications:

  • 2nd Draft SP 800-116 - A Recommendation for the Use of PIV Credentials in Physical Access Control Systems
    September 2008 (550 KB)

PIV Card and Middleware Conformance Testing:

  • * SP 800-85A - PIV Card Application and Middleware Interface Test Guidelines
    April 2006 (1,580 KB)
  • * SP 800-85B - PIV Data Model Conformance Test Guidelines
    July 2006 (1,927 KB)

* Note: SP 800-85A and SP 800-85B adhere to the PIV cryptographic specifications in SP 800-78 and the PIV Interfaces specification in SP 800-73-1. Updates to SP 800-85A and 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 (100 KB)

PIV Accreditation:

  • SP 800-79-1 - Guidelines for the Accreditation of Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Card Issuers (PCI’s)
    June 2008 (855 KB)
  • SP 800-79 - Refer to SP 800-79-1 (above)
  • SP 800-87 Revision 1 - Codes for the Identification of Federal and Federally-Assisted Organizations
    April 2008 (406 KB)
    Please email Agency Code update requests to piv_comments@nist.gov

NISTIR 7337 - Personal Identity Verification Demonstration Summary, August 2006 (137 KB)

NISTIR 7452 - Secure Biometric Match-on-Card Feasibility Report, November 2007 (785 KB)