Personal Identity Verification Card (PIV Card)

March 5, 2018

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Personal Identity Verification Card (PIV Card)

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Physical artifact (e.g., identity card, “smart” card) issued to an individual that contains stored identity credentials (e.g., photograph, cryptographic keys, digitized fingerprint representation, etc.) such that a claimed identity of the cardholder may be verified against the stored credentials by another person (human-readable and verifiable) or an automated process (computer-readable and verifiable).
SOURCE: FIPS 201; CNSSI-4009