Forwarded message: From: "Barker, Elaine B." <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:40:24 -0400 Subject: NIST Requests Public Comments
NIST announces the availability of two draft documents for public comment: NIST Special Publication 800-38E and NIST Interagency Report 7609. Draft NIST Special Publication 800-38E, Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: The XTS-AES Mode for Confidentiality on Block-Oriented Storage Devices approves the XTS-AES mode of the AES algorithm by reference to IEEE Std 1619-2007, subject to one additional requirement, as an option for protecting the confidentiality of data on block-oriented storage devices. This mode does not provide authentication, in order to avoid expansion of the data; however, it does provide some protection against malicious manipulation of the encrypted data. The publication is available at http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-38E/draft-sp800-38E.pdf. Comments on the text of the Draft NIST SP 800-38E may be submitted to [email protected] until September 17, 2009. Draft NIST Interagency Report 7609, Cryptographic Key Management Workshop Summary (June 8-9, 200), is available at http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/ir7609/draft-nistir-7609.pdf. The Cryptographic Key Management (CKM) workshop was initiated by the NIST Computer Security Division to identify and develop technologies that would allow organizations to leap ahead of normal development lifecycles to vastly improve the security of future sensitive and valuable computer applications. The workshop was the first step in developing a CKM framework. This summary provides the highlights of the presentations, organized by both topic and by presenter. Please provide comments by September 18, 2009 to [email protected], with "Comments on the Key Management Workshop Report" in the subject line. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [email protected]
