NISTIR 7676

Maintaining and Using Key History on 

Personal Identity Verification (PIV) 

Cards

David A. Cooper 
NISTIR 7676

Maintaining and Using Key History on 

Personal Identity Verification (PIV) 

Cards 

David A. Cooper 

Computer Security Division 

Information Technology Laboratory

June 2010

U.S. Department of Commerce 

Gary Locke, Secretary 

National Institute of Standards and Technology 

Patrick D. Gallagher, Director
Reports on Computer Systems Technology 

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Abstract 

NIST Special Publication 800-73-3 [7] introduces the ability to store retired Key Management Keys 

within the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Card Application on a PIV Card. This paper complements 

SP 800-73-3 by providing some of the rationale for the design of the mechanism for storing retired Key 

Management Keys on PIV Cards and by providing suggestions to smart card vendors, PIV Card Issuers, 

and middleware developers on the use of the Key History mechanism. 

Disclaimer 

Statements made in this paper are the opinions of the author and should not be interpreted as standards, 

guidelines, best practices, or recommendations for specific changes to any other NIST publications. 

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Table of Contents 

1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................1

2. Overview ................................................................................................................................2

3. Storing Retired Keys Within the PIV Card Application...........................................................3

Appendix A— Sample OffCardKeyHistoryFile ..............................................................................8

Appendix B— Acronyms...............................................................................................................9

Appendix C— References ..........................................................................................................10
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1. Introduction 

Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201 [2] specifies that a PIV Card may include a 

Key Management Key to support either key transport or key agreement. This key may be used to 

enable the encryption of data to protect the data while it is being sent across a network and while 

it is at rest. For example, an email message may be encrypted by the sender to protect the 

message from eavesdropping while it is being sent and the encrypted email may be stored on the 

recipient’s computer or mail server to be decrypted each time the recipient reads the email. 

Each Key Management Key has a limited lifetime and must be replaced periodically with a newly 

generated key pair. While any newly encrypted data should be encrypted using the most recently 

generated Key Management public key, users need to continue to have access to their older Key 

Management private keys to be able to decrypt data that has been stored in encrypted form and 

that was encrypted using one of their older Key Management public keys. 

Special Publication 800-73-3 [7] provides for the ability to store these older (retired) Key 

Management Keys within the PIV Card Application. The storage and use of retired Key 

Management Keys on a PIV Card involves a number of tradeoffs. In order to decrypt an 

encrypted message, an application needs access to information that will allow it to determine 

which private key to use to perform the decryption. Thus, in addition to the private key, some 

additional information needs to be made available to applications to aid in identifying the 

appropriate private key to use to perform a decryption operation. If insufficient information is 

made available to applications, then applications may be unable to make use of the private keys. 

However, storage space on PIV Cards is limited and reading data from a PIV Card can be 

relatively slow, so there is a need to avoid storing more information than necessary on the card. 

This paper describes the mechanism in SP 800-73-3 that supports the maintenance of key history 

within the PIV Card Application and provides suggestions to PIV Card manufacturers, issuers, 

and middleware developers on the use of the Key History mechanism. Readers of this paper 

should be familiar with the description of the Key History mechanism in Part 1 of SP 800-73-3.

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2. Overview 

FIPS 201 [2] specifies one mandatory and three optional asymmetric key pairs that may appear 

on PIV Cards: the PIV Authentication Key, the Card Authentication Key, the Digital Signature 

Key, and the Key Management Key. FIPS 201 requires that whenever one of these keys is 

present on the card, the corresponding X.509 certificate [6] must also be stored on the card. 

Storing the certificates on the card ensures that any application that has access to the private keys 

also has access to the corresponding certificates. In the case of the Key Management Key, it is 

likely that the only information about the cardholder’s Key Management Key that an entity 

encrypting a message intended for the cardholder will use will be the X.509 certificate containing 

the public key. Ensuring that the PIV Card-using application also has access to the certificate 

ensures that the application will have access to all the information that it needs to determine 

whether the Key Management Key on the PIV Card was used to encrypt a particular encrypted 

message. 

In most cases, an encrypted message does not include a copy of the certificate whose public key 

was used to encrypt the data. For example, a common format for encrypted data that will be 

stored in encrypted form is the envelopedData content type of the Cryptographic Message Syntax 

(CMS) [8], which is used in S/MIME to encode encrypted email messages. In CMS, the public 

key that was used to encrypt the message is identified by specifying either the contents of the 

subjectKeyIdentifier extension from the certificate from which the key was taken or the issuer 

distinguished name and serial number from the certificate. The recipient must then identify the 

private key corresponding to the certificate that contains this information in order to decrypt the 

message. 

While storing the certificates corresponding to retired Key Management private keys on the PIV 

Card ensures that they are always accessible to PIV Card-using applications that may need them, 

there are two drawbacks: the storage space that would be needed to hold the certificates may be 

needed for other purposes and it may take too long to read all of the certificates from the PIV 

Card. SP 800-73-3 [7] addresses these issues by allowing the entity that loads the PIV Card 

Application onto a PIV Card to decide how much space to allocate on the PIV Card to the storage 

of retired X.509 certificates for Key Management and by enabling access to these certificates 

from an off-card source. When the PIV Card-using application can access retired certificates 

from an off-card source, the application does not need to read them from the card. The 

certificates that are stored on the PIV Card may serve as an alternative source for the certificates 

for PIV Card-using applications that cannot obtain the certificates from an off-card source. 

This paper assumes that applications will only make use of Key Management private keys if they 

have access to the corresponding certificates. This would mean that a PIV Card-using application 

that cannot access the off-card certificate source would be limited to using the retired Key 

Management private keys for which the corresponding certificates are stored within the PIV Card 

Application. A PIV Card-using application that did not have access to the certificate containing 

the public key that was used to encrypt a message could try to decrypt the message with every 

private key in its possession until it had either successfully decrypted the message or had tried 

every private key, but this paper assumes that applications will not do this.

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3. Storing Retired Keys Within the PIV Card Application 

SP 800-73-3 [7] allows for up to twenty retired Key Management Keys to be stored within the 

PIV Card Application on a PIV Card. SP 800-73-3 imposes a limit of twenty retired Key 

Management Keys since ISO/IEC 7816-4 [3] requires each key to be assigned a unique key 

reference value and limits each card application to thirty-two different key reference values. 

Seven of the PIV Card Application’s key reference values have already been assigned to other 

keys (PIV Card Application PIN ['80'], PIN Unblocking Key ['81'], PIV Authentication Key 

['9A'], Card Management Key ['9B'], Digital Signature Key ['9C'], Key Management Key ['9D'], 

and Card Authentication Key ['9E']). The remaining five key reference values for the PIV Card 

Application are being reserved for possible future use. 

When the PIV Card Application is loaded onto a card, space may be allocated for zero to twenty 

retired Key Management private keys and their corresponding certificates. Space may be 

allocated for fewer certificates than private keys. Where space on the card is limited, it is 

recommended that priority be given to allocating space for as many retired Key Management 

private keys as possible while also allocating space for at least one retired X.509 certificate for 

Key Management. Storing at least one certificate on the card will ensure that the most recently 

retired Key Management Key will always be available for use, even when the PIV Card-using 

application cannot access the off-card certificate source. Maximizing the number of retired Key 

Management private keys stored on the card will ensure maximal availability of older encrypted 

data whenever the PIV Card-using application has access to all of the corresponding certificates. 

When all of the retired X.509 certificates for Key Management are stored within the PIV Card 

Application, SP 800-73-3 does not require those certificates to also be available from an off-card 

source. However, it is recommended that issuers make retired certificates available from an offcard source even in this case since it will generally be much faster for the PIV Card-using 

application to obtain the certificates from an off-card source than to read them from the PIV Card. 

When retired certificates are made available from an off-card source, the URL that points to the 

off-card source must be of the form: 

"http://" <DNS name> "/" <ASCII-HEX encoded SHA-256 hash of OffCardKeyHistoryFile> 

For example, the offCardCertURL that points to the sample OffCardKeyHistoryFile shown in 

Appendix A is 

http://smime2.nist.gov/8B0F34EA6AFC8322CE557CCEF49A8327CDAC58D67405CEFDE

0A05E01895BFF46 

The offCardCertURL is included in the Key History object, which is protected by the digitally 

signed Security Object. This allows the PIV Card-using application to verify the integrity of the 

SHA-256 hash [1] that is encoded in the offCardCertURL. The SHA-256 hash serves three 

purposes: 

1. It allows the PIV Card-using application to verify the contents of the 

OffCardKeyHistoryFile by comparing a hash of the downloaded file to the hash value 

encoded in the URL. 

2. It supports local caching of the OffCardKeyHistoryFile by providing a simple 

mechanism for ensuring that a locally cached file exactly matches the file referenced by 

the URL on a PIV Card. Locally caching the OffCardKeyHistoryFile after it is 

downloaded the first time allows for faster access to the retired certificates during 

subsequent uses of the PIV Card and ensures access to the retired certificates that are not 

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stored within the PIV Card Application even if the PIV Card-using application is not 

connected to the network or the server holding the OffCardKeyHistoryFile is temporarily 

unavailable. 

3. Encoding the SHA-256 hash of the OffCardKeyHistoryFile in the offCardCertURL

ensures that the URL cannot be guessed by anyone who does not already have access to 

the OffCardKeyHistoryFile or to the PIV Card. 

If the server holding the certificates does not allow users to obtain a listing of the files in a 

directory, making the URLs unguessable should prevent anyone who is not in possession of a PIV 

Card from downloading the OffCardKeyHistoryFile referenced by the card even though the file 

can be downloaded by anyone who knows the file’s URL. Since X.509 certificates for Key 

Management may be publicly distributed, configuring the server to prevent users from obtaining a 

listing of the files in a directory should provide a sufficient level of protection against the off-card 

certificate files being downloaded by anyone who is not in possession of the PIV Card. However, 

since the retired X.509 certificates for Key Management are only needed by the cardholder, 

Agencies may choose to place the server holding the off-card certificate files on an internal 

network, although doing so may cause problems for cardholders trying to use their PIV Cards 

while they are telecommuting or on travel. 

A new OffCardKeyHistoryFile will need to be created whenever a new Key Management Key is 

created for a cardholder and the cardholder’s previous Key Management Key is moved into the 

key history.1

 Since the SHA-256 hash of the OffCardKeyHistoryFile is encoded in the 

offCardCertURL, the offCardCertURL in a PIV Card’s Key History object will need to be 

updated whenever a new OffCardKeyHistoryFile is created for the card. Moving a newly retired 

Key Management Key into the key history may also result in the value of either 

keysWithOnCardCerts or keysWithOffCardCerts needing to be changed. Whenever any of the 

values within the Key History object are changed, the hash of the Key History object in the 

Security Object will need to be updated and the Security Object will need to be re-signed. 

As a general rule, PIV Card-using applications that may need access to retired X.509 certificates 

for Key Management should first read the Key History object. If the Key History object is 

present and contains an offCardCertURL, then the PIV Card-using application should look for the 

OffCardKeyHistoryFile that is referenced by the offCardCertURL in a local cache. If the file 

cannot be found there, or if there is no local cache, the PIV Card-using application should use the 

offCardCertURL to download the OffCardKeyHistoryFile from the server. Whether the 

OffCardKeyHistoryFile is obtained from the local cache or from a remote server, the SHA-256 

hash of the file should be compared with the SHA-256 hash encoded in the offCardCertURL to 

ensure that the correct file has been obtained. PIV Card-using applications should be prepared for 

the possibility that the server holding the OffCardKeyHistoryFile cannot be accessed even if 

network connectivity is available since the server may only be available from an Agency’s 

internal network. If the Key History object does not include an offCardCertURL or if the 

OffCardKeyHistoryFile referenced by the offCardCertURL is not locally cached and cannot be 

downloaded from the server, then the PIV Card-using application will need to read the retired 

X.509 certificates for Key Management from the PIV Card, if they have been stored on the card. 

The PIV Card-using application does not need to validate the retired X.509 certificates for Key 

Management since they are only being used to aid in identifying the appropriate private key to 

use to decrypt data that was previously encrypted. 

 

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 An OffCardKeyHistoryFile does not need to be created if all of the retired X.509 certificates for Key 

Management are stored within the PIV Card Application and the offCardCertURL is omitted from the PIV 

Card’s Key History object. 

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If a PIV Card-using application is unable to access the OffCardKeyHistoryFile, then the 

application will only be able to make use of the retired Key Management Keys for which the 

corresponding certificates are also stored on the PIV Card. The design of the Key History 

mechanism takes this into consideration. In general, a given retired Key Management Key’s use 

will decline with age. So, PIV Card-using applications will typically need access to the most 

recently retired Key Management Keys more frequently than they will need access to older 

retired Key Management Keys. Thus, SP 800-73-3 requires that if the PIV Card does not store all 

of the retired X.509 certificates for Key Management then the card must store those certificates 

corresponding to the most recently issued Key Management Keys. 

Tables 1 through 4 provide examples of the storage of retired Key Management Keys within the 

PIV Card Application. All four examples involve the storage of the same set of seven retired 

keys, but the examples differ in the number of retired X.509 certificates for Key Management that 

are stored within the PIV Card Application. For each retired Key Management private key that is 

stored within the PIV Card Application, the tables show the key reference value assigned to the 

private key, the BER-TLV tag for the corresponding certificate (if the certificate is stored within 

the PIV Card Application), the date when the certificate was issued (notBefore), and the date 

when the certificate expires (notAfter). 

Note that in the examples, each of the Key Management Keys was replaced with a newer key 

long before the end of the corresponding certificate’s three-year lifespan. While a cardholder 

would not typically be issued new Key Management Keys so frequently, a cardholder may be 

issued a new Key Management Key well before the end of the current Key Management Key’s 

certificate’s lifetime if the PIV Card was lost or broken, information in the certificate (e.g., email 

address) needed to be changed, or the PIV Card needed to be replaced as a result of changes in 

information printed on the face of the card (e.g., rank). 

Table 1 presents an example in which all of the certificates are stored within the PIV Card 

Application. Since keysWithOffCardCerts is zero, the offCardCertURL is not required to be 

present in the Key History object. In order to facilitate discovery of the key references and BERTLV tags that correspond to the retired private keys and certificates, respectively, SP 800-73-3 

requires that the retired keys be assigned key references '82' through '88' and that the certificates 

be stored in the BER-TLV tags that correspond to these key references. However, there is no 

requirement with respect to which retired key is assigned to which of these key references. Thus, 

in this example, the keys have been assigned to key references '82' through '88' at random. 

Table 2 presents an example in which only four of the seven retired X.509 certificates for Key 

Management are stored within the PIV Card Application. In this case, the offCardCertURL is 

required to be present and the file that is referred to by the URL must contain all seven of the 

retired X.509 certificates for Key Management (see Appendix A). As is required by SP 800-73-3, 

the four retired Key Management Keys that were most recently issued are the ones that are stored 

within the PIV Card Application. These certificates must be stored in BER-TLV tags '5FC10D' 

through '5FC110'. The corresponding private keys must be assigned to the corresponding key 

references as specified in Table 6 of SP 800-73-3, Part 1. For example, the private key 

corresponding to the certificate in BER-TLV tag '5FC10D' must be assigned key reference '82'. 

The oldest three private keys, the ones for which the corresponding certificates are not stored 

within the PIV Card Application, must be assigned key references '93' through '95'. 

Tables 5 and 6 present two more examples of the storage of retired Key Management Keys within 

the PIV Card Application. Both examples are based on a scenario in which the PIV Card 

Application is holding the seven retired Key Management Keys depicted in the examples in 

Tables 1 though 4 and the cardholder is issued a new Key Management Key, resulting in the 

previous Key Management Key becoming a retired Key Management Key. As in the example in 

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Table 3, the PIV Card Application only stores three retired X.509 certificates for Key 

Management. 

Table 1: keysWithOnCardCerts = 7, keysWithOffCardCerts = 0 

Key Reference 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 

Certificate Tag 5FC10D 5FC10E 5FC10F 5FC110 5FC111 5FC112 5FC113 

Cert. notBefore 03/08 11/05 05/05 05/07 10/06 01/09 04/07 

Cert. notAfter 03/11 11/08 05/08 05/10 10/09 01/12 04/10 

Table 2: keysWithOnCardCerts = 4, keysWithOffCardCerts = 3 

Key Reference 82 83 84 85 93 94 95 

Certificate Tag 5FC10D 5FC10E 5FC10F 5FC110 N/A N/A N/A 

Cert. notBefore 03/08 01/09 05/07 04/07 05/05 10/06 11/05 

Cert. notAfter 03/11 01/12 05/10 04/10 05/08 10/09 11/08 

Table 3: keysWithOnCardCerts = 3, keysWithOffCardCerts = 4 

Key Reference 82 83 84 92 93 94 95 

Certificate Tag 5FC10D 5FC10E 5FC10F N/A N/A N/A N/A 

Cert. notBefore 01/09 05/07 03/08 10/06 04/07 11/05 05/05 

Cert. notAfter 01/12 05/10 03/11 10/09 04/10 11/08 05/08 

Table 4: keysWithOnCardCerts = 0, keysWithOffCardCerts = 7 

Key Reference 8F 90 91 92 93 94 95 

Certificate Tag N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 

Cert. notBefore 10/06 05/05 04/07 05/07 01/09 03/08 11/05 

Cert. notAfter 10/09 05/08 04/10 05/10 01/12 03/11 11/08 

Table 5: keysWithOnCardCerts = 3, keysWithOffCardCerts = 4 

Key Reference 82 83 84 92 93 94 95 

Certificate Tag 5FC10D 5FC10E 5FC10F N/A N/A N/A N/A 

Cert. notBefore 01/09 05/09 03/08 10/06 04/07 11/05 05/07 

Cert. notAfter 01/12 05/12 03/11 10/09 04/10 11/08 05/10 

Table 6: keysWithOnCardCerts = 3, keysWithOffCardCerts = 5 

Key Reference 82 83 84 91 92 93 94 95 

Certificate Tag 5FC10D 5FC10E 5FC10F N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 

Cert. notBefore 01/09 05/09 03/08 05/07 10/06 04/07 11/05 05/05

Cert. notAfter 01/12 05/12 03/11 05/10 10/09 04/10 11/08 05/08

In the example in Table 5, the PIV Card Application is only capable of storing seven retired Key 

Management private keys. In this case, in order to make room for the new retired Key 

Management Key (associated with the certificate issued 05/09), the oldest retired Key 

Management Key (associated with the certificate issued 05/05) is removed from the PIV Card 

Application. Since the three most recently issued retired X.509 certificates for Key Management 

must be stored within the PIV Card Application, the certificate that was issued in May 2007 is 

also removed from the PIV Card Application in order to make room for the newly retired 

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certificate that was issued in May 2009. Since the certificate that was issued in May 2007 is no 

longer stored within the PIV Card Application, its corresponding private key must be assigned a 

key reference between '92' and '95' rather than a key reference between '82' and '84'. 

In the example in Table 6, the PIV Card Application is capable of storing at least eight retired 

Key Management Keys, so no keys need to be removed from the PIV Card Application. 

However, as in the example in Table 5, the certificate that was issued in May 2007 needs to be 

removed from the PIV Card Application in order to make room for the certificate that was issued 

in May 2009, and the private key corresponding to the certificate that was issued in May 2007 

needs to be assigned a key reference between '91' and '95' rather than a key reference between '82' 

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Appendix A—Sample OffCardKeyHistoryFile 

This appendix presents an example of the contents of the OffCardKeyHistoryFile, which is 

referenced by the offCardCertURL in the Key History object. The sample 

OffCardKeyHistoryFile corresponds to the example presented in Table 2. Examples 

corresponding to Tables 1, 3, and 4, would be nearly identical, with only the key references 

associated with each certificate being different. 

The OffCardKeyHistoryFile contains the DER encoding [5] of the following ASN.1 [4]: 

OffCardKeyHistoryFile ::= SEQUENCE SIZE (1..20) OF SEQUENCE { 

keyReference OCTET STRING (SIZE(1)) 

cert Certificate 

} 

where cert is a retired X.509 certificate for Key Management and keyReference is the key 

reference assigned to the corresponding private key. The example below shows the pseudoASN.1 of the data that is being encoded on the left and the ASCII-HEX encoded representation of 

the contents of the OffCardKeyHistoryFile on the right. In order to enhance readability, only the 

first fourteen octets of each of the X.509 certificates are shown, but otherwise the entire contents 

of the OffCardKeyHistoryFile are presented. Each of the retired X.509 certificates for Key 

Management differ in their serial numbers, validity dates, subject public keys, and signatures, but 

are generally the same otherwise and so the lengths of each of the certificates and the first 

fourteen octets of each of the certificates are the same. The one exception is the certificate that 

was issued in January 2009, which includes an elliptic curve cryptography subject public key 

rather than an RSA subject public key, which results in this certificate being 203 octets shorter 

than the other certificates. 

pseudo-ASN.1 DER encoding

OffCardKeyHistoryFile ::=

SEQUENCE SIZE (7) OF 30 82 2E 6E 

 SEQUENCE 30 82 06 BB 

 keyReference // ('85') 04 01 85 

 cert // (issued 04/07) 30 82 06 B4 30 82 05 9C A0 03 02 01 02 02 ... 

 SEQUENCE 30 82 06 BB 

 keyReference // ('82') 04 01 82 

 cert // (issued 03/08) 30 82 06 B4 30 82 05 9C A0 03 02 01 02 02 ... 

 SEQUENCE 30 82 05 F0 

 keyReference // ('83') 04 01 83 

 cert // (issued 01/09) 30 82 05 E9 30 82 04 D1 A0 03 02 01 02 02 ... 

 SEQUENCE 30 82 06 BB 

 keyReference // ('94') 04 01 94 

 cert // (issued 10/06) 30 82 06 B4 30 82 05 9C A0 03 02 01 02 02 ... 

 SEQUENCE 30 82 06 BB 

 keyReference // ('93') 04 01 93 

 cert // (issued 05/05) 30 82 06 B4 30 82 05 9C A0 03 02 01 02 02 ... 

 SEQUENCE 30 82 06 BB 

 keyReference // ('84') 04 01 84 

 cert // (issued 05/07) 30 82 06 B4 30 82 05 9C A0 03 02 01 02 02 ... 

 SEQUENCE 30 82 06 BB 

 keyReference // ('95') 04 01 95 

 cert // (issued 11/05) 30 82 06 B4 30 82 05 9C A0 03 02 01 02 02 ... 

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Appendix B—Acronyms 

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange 

ASN.1 Abstract Syntax Notation One 

CMS Cryptographic Message Syntax 

DER Distinguished Encoding Rules 

DNS Domain Name System 

FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard 

HEX Hexadecimal 

HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol 

IEC International Electrotechnical Commission 

ISO International Organization for Standardization 

ITL Information Technology Laboratory 

N/A Not Applicable 

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology 

NISTIR National Institute of Standards and Technology Interagency Report 

PIV Personal Identity Verification 

RSA Rivest, Shamir, Adleman cryptographic algorithm 

SHA Secure Hash Algorithm 

S/MIME Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions 

SP Special Publication 

URL Uniform Resource Locator 

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Appendix C—References 

[1] Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 180-3, Secure Hash Standard (SHS), 

October 2008. (See http://csrc.nist.gov) 

[2] Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 201-1, Change Notice 1, Personal 

Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors, March 2006. 

(See http://csrc.nist.gov) 

[3] ISO/IEC 7816-4:2005, Identification cards — Integrated circuit cards — Part 4: 

Organization, security and commands for interchange. 

[4] ISO/IEC 8824-2:2008, Information technology — Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): 

Information object specification. 

[5] ISO/IEC 8825-1:2008, Information technology — ASN.1 encoding rules: Specification of 

Basic Encoding Rules (BER), Canonical Encoding Rules (CER) and Distinguished Encoding 

Rules (DER). 

[6] ISO/IEC 9594-8:2008, Information technology — Open Systems Interconnection — The 

Directory: Public-key and attribute certificate frameworks. 

[7] NIST Special Publication 800-73-3, Interfaces for Personal Identity Verification – Part 1: 

End-Point PIV Card Application Namespace, Data Model and Representation, February 

2010. (See http://csrc.nist.gov) 

[8] Russell Housley, Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS), Internet Engineering Task Force 

(IETF) Request for Comments (RFC) 5652, September 2009. 

(See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5652.txt) 

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