Hi Folks, NIST has completed the 90-day public review of the proposal from IEEE 1619 to add XTS-AES as an Approved Mode of Operation under FIPS 140.
XTS-AES provides a "narrow-block" tweakable block cipher based on the XEX construction proposed by Phillip Rogaway. See the following link for comments, under the section "Comments On The Proposal To Approve XTS-AES": http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/BCM/comments.html NIST received comments from the following individuals: * Moses Liskov, Kazuhiko Minematsu: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/BCM/documents/comments/XTS/XTS_comments-Liskov_Minematsu.pdf * Seagate Technology: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/BCM/documents/comments/XTS/XTS_comments-Seagate.pdf * Matt Ball: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/BCM/documents/comments/XTS/XTS_comments-Ball.pdf * Collected comments: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/BCM/documents/comments/XTS/collected_XTS_comments.pdf - Boaz Shahar - David Clunie - Rich Shroeppel - Phillip Rogaway - Vijay Bharadwaj, Neils Ferguson Based on these comments, NIST will decide whether or not to approve XTS for FIPS 140-2/140-3. -- Thanks! -Matt Matt Ball, IEEE P1619.x SISWG Chair Cell: 303-717-2717 http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewvball http://www.mavaball.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]