1.3 Audience and Assumptions
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Before · SP 800-73-4
Audience and Assumptions
After · SP 800-73-5
Audience and Assumptions
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Before · SP 800-73-4
This document is targeted at Federal agencies and implementers of PIV systems. Readers are assumed to have a working knowledge of smart card standards and applications.
Readers should also be aware of SP 800-73-4 Part 1, Section I, for the revision history of SP 800-73, Section II, which details configuration management recommendations, and Section III, which specifies NPIVP conformance testing procedures. Section 1.3 of Part 1 specifies the effective date of SP 800-73-4.
1 A physical artifact (e.g., identity card, “smart” card) issued to an individual that contains a PIV Card Application which stores 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 an automated process (computer readable and verifiable) or another person (human readable and verifiable).
After · SP 800-73-5
This document is targeted at Federal agencies and implementers of PIV systems. Readers are assumed to have a working knowledge of smart card standards and applications.
Readers should also be aware of SP 800-73-4 Part 1, Section I, for the revision history of SP 800-73, Section II, which details configuration management recommendations, and Section III, which specifies NPIVP conformance testing procedures. Section 1.3 of Part 1 specifies the effective date of SP 800-73-4.
1 A physical artifact (e.g., identity card, “smart” card) issued to an individual that contains a PIV Card Application which stores 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 an automated process (computer readable and verifiable) or another person (human readable and verifiable).