What is the draft Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201?
FIPS 201 is the technical standard that HSPD-12 required NIST to develop. FIPS 201 is entitled “Personal Identity Verification (PIV) for Federal Employees and Contractors.” The standard requires the collection of fingerprint information and facial information for inclusion on the credential. (Government agencies already use such information to differing degrees depending on the agency.) The credential themselves will contain both a “contact” smart chip and a “contactless” chip, meaning that they can be read by devices that need direct contact with the credential and devices that can read the credential remotely. The final FIPS 201 was issued on February 27, 2005. The second revision, FIPS 201-2 is in draft.
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