NIST Personal Identity Verification Program

Overview
The NIST Personal Identity Verification Program (NPIVP) validates Personal Identity Verification (PIV) components required by Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201.

The objectives of the NPIVP program are:


 * to validate the compliance/conformance of two PIV components &mdash; PIV middleware and PIV card application with the specifications in NIST Special Publication 800-73 and
 * to provides the assurance that the set of PIV middleware and PIV card applications that have been validated by NPIVP are interoperable.

Source

 * NIST, Computer Security Division, Computer Security Resource Center, NIST's Personal Identity Verification Program (NPIVP) (full-text).