Forwarded message: From: "Jack Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: IEEE 1667 Approved December 5, 2006 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:57:15 -0500 Reply-To: "Jack Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
IEEE Press Release at http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/pr_IEEE1667_new.html IEEE 1667, "Standard Protocol for Authentication in Host Attachments of Transient Storage Devices", was approved December 5, 2006. Transiently-connected storage devices include devices in wide use such as USB flash drives, mobile phones, PDAs, and mp3 players. This standard impacts secure uses of such devices in, for example, important economic areas employing mobile phones for ordinary commercial transactions, now common in Asian and European countries. IEEE 1667 is sponsored by the Computer Society with the Information Assurance Standards Committee (IASC) leading a joint project with the Storage Systems Standards Committee (SSSC) and supported by the Task Force on Information Assurance (TFIA) and the Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC). This is the first Information Assurance standard to be published by the IEEE, and is one of several projects being developed through the combined efforts and support of IEEE Computer Society standards and technical committees with expertise in complementary information technology areas. Jack Cole Chair, Information Assurance Standards Committee Please forgive receipt of duplicates. Multiple lists with overlapping subscriptions were used. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]