Matt, You can send a draft of rationale to me and I will edit it into the P1619 document.
I would like to emphasize that we should refrain from trying to make the document cover all aspects of security. There are thousands of pages in FIPS/NIAP standards that talk about related issues, including issues related to quality of keys, non-reuse of keys, etc. -serge -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Ball Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 8:44 AM To: Shai Halevi Cc: SISWG Subject: Re: a plea for rationale appendix sections in the draft Hi Shai, I might be able to work on such a section. Do you have a Microsoft Word version of the 1619 spec that I could get a copy of? Do we need a 2 week quiescent period before voting on this document? If so, I suspect we'd want the final draft out before the end of the month for our meeting in February. Speaking of which, has anyone given thought to which day we want to meet for the 1619 group? It's currently scheduled as a day during the week of February 13th (during the RSA conference). The meeting's close enough that it's time to start scheduling flights. Lastly, I was wondering if we could get the 1619.1 (tape) spec ready in time for voting in the February meeting in addition to the 1619 (disk) spec. Do we need to add some more boilerplate to the 1619.1 specification before it can be voted on? I could devote some time to this one as well. How about we schedule a teleconference in 2 weeks to discuss any outstanding issues? Jim, could Sun host something like this? If not, Quantum could probably set something up. 1619 Outstanding issues: - Add rationale section at end - Any others? 1619.1 Outstanding issues: - Define method for ensuring IV uniqueness between vendors (or rather technologies or formats). - Add more test vectors - Do we want to keep GMAC mode? (authentication only) - Any others? Thanks, Matt Ball Embedded Software Engineer Quantum Corporation 4001 Discovery Drive, Suite 1100 Boulder, CO 80303 (720) 406-5766 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shai Halevi Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 7:45 AM To: SISWG Subject: Re: a plea for rationale appendix sections in the draft Can anyone else take it upon him/herself to produce an appendix for 1619 that talks about the rationale behind this standard? (I will be happy to help, but I cannot commit the time to produce a coherent text that can be incorporated as part of the standard.) -- Shai Shai Halevi wrote: > A reasonably short appendix might be a good compromise, provided that there > is someone who volunteers to actually write it. > > Landon, since you seem keen on having such an appendix in the standard, > can you do this work? If you do, I can send you some text that may be > incorporated into such appendix. > > -- Shai Landon Noll wrote: > I have just been informed that I must be out of the office [...] As such > I will not be able to complete the production of the rationale section.
