The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is pleased to announce the approval of Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 201-3, Personal Identity Verification of Federal Employees and Contractors. See the Federal Register Notice announcing FIPS 201-3 approval at https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2022-01246.

The rendered version is available from NIST pages https://pages.nist.gov/FIPS201/.

FIPS 201-3 addresses the comments received during the public comment period in November 2020. High level changes include:

• Alignment with current NIST technical guidelines on identity management, OMB policy guidelines, and changes in commercially available technologies and services
• Accommodation of additional types of authenticators through an expanded definition of derived PIV credentials
• Focus on the use of federation to facilitate interoperability and interagency trust
• Addition of supervised remote identity proofing processes
• Removal of the previously deprecated Cardholder Unique Identifier (CHUID) authentication mechanism and deprecation of the symmetric card authentication key and visual authentication mechanisms (VIS)
• Support for the secure messaging authentication mechanism (SM-AUTH)

A detailed list of changes is available in FIPS 201-3, Appendix E, Revision History. Public comments and dispositions can be found in the Issues tab of this repository.

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