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personal identity verification (PIV)

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PIV show sources hide sources CNSSI 4009-2015 FIPS 201-3 NIST IR 8459 NIST SP 1800-12b NIST SP 1800-12c NIST SP 1800-31B NIST SP 1800-4b NIST SP 800-157 NIST SP 800-161r1-upd1 NIST SP 800-163 Rev.1 NIST SP 800-175A NIST SP 800-190 NIST SP 800-203 NIST SP 800-211 NIST SP 800-213 NIST SP 800-213A NIST SP 800-214 NIST SP 800-52 Rev. 2 NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 NIST SP 800-53A Rev. 5 NIST SP 800-63-4 NIST SP 800-73pt1-5 NIST SP 800-73pt2-5 NIST SP 800-73pt3-5 NIST SP 800-78-5 NIST SP 800-82r3 NIST SP 800-85B NISTIR 8196 NISTIR 8347 NISTIR 8379

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A physical artifact (e.g., identity card, “smart” card) issued to a government individual that contains stored identity credentials (e.g., photograph, cryptographic keys, digitized fingerprint representation) so that the claimed identity of the cardholder can be verified against the stored credentials by another person (human readable and verifiable) or an automated process (computer readable and verifiable). PIV requirements are defined in FIPS PUB 201. Sources: CNSSI 4009-2015 from CNSSI 1300 NIST SP 1800-21C under Personal Identity Verification (PIV)

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