"Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bill: you might want to look at: www.siswg.org, which is looking at just > this > problem. Here's the meat of a couple messages I received about it: > > > The IEEE Technical Committee on Information Assurance has > > started a standards project on storage encryption, covering > > encryption algorithms, integrity algorithms, and key management. > > A common criteria protection profile is also proposed. Jim Hughes > > (Storage Tek) is chair and invites cryptographers to participate in > > the project. > > > > This work potentially has wide application, from hard disk storage > > to PDAs.
There's some discussion of these issues in the paper presenting my (broken) block cipher Mercy, which was meant for this application: http://www.ciphergoth.org/mercy/ -- __ Paul Crowley \/ o\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ciphergoth.org/ /\__/ BiCon 2002 UK bisexual gathering: http://www.2002.bicon.org.uk/
