NIST has established the NIST Personal Identity Verification Validation Program (NPIVP) to validate Personal Identity Verification (PIV) components required by Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201.
The objectives of the NPIVP program are:
All of the tests under NPIVP are handled by third-party test facilities that are accredited under the Cryptographic and Security Testing (CST) Laboratory Accreditation Program (LAP) established by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) and have extended their scope of accredition under CST LAP to include the PIV Test Methods.
Vendors interested in PIV card application and/or PIV middleware validation testing may select any of Testing Facilities.
Security and Privacy: Personal Identity Verification, testing & validation
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