Re: street prices for digital goods?

2008-09-12 Thread Peter Gutmann
Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I have a question about all this. There seems to be a disconnect between the >approximate prices mentioned here - too cheap to only do small transactions, >etc - and what I have seen when looking at various of the sites. Maybe I'm >missing something and you could

NIST has posted public comments on XTS-AES

2008-09-12 Thread Matt Ball
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 comm