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From:
Matt BallDate: Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:52 AM
Subject: P1619.2 Sponsor Ballot Invitation has been re-opened/extended
To: P1619-2 <
P1619-2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Folks,
I've extended the P1619.2 Sponsor Ballot Invitation, since it's over 6 months old.
New deadline is July 30, 2009. I'm hoping we can start the P1619.2 sponsor ballot soon after that... :)
See below for invitation text:
Cheers,
-Matt
***** SPONSOR BALLOT INVITATION *****
IMPORTANT! To participate, you must have access to myProject through an IEEE Web Account.
If you would like to participate in IEEE Standards Sponsor Ballot
P1619.2
Title: Standard for Wide-Block Encryption for Shared Storage Media
you must enroll as a member of the ballot group by 30-Jul-2009, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.
***** IEEE STANDARD DOCUMENT INFORMATION *****
The IEEE Computer Society Society/Standard for Wide-Block Encryption for Shared Storage Media invites you to participate in the New Sponsor Ballot for:
P1619.2
Title: Standard for Wide-Block Encryption for Shared Storage Media
Scope: This standard specifies an architecture for encryption of data in random access storage devices, oriented towards applications which benefit from wide encryption-block sizes of 512 bytes and above.
Purpose: This standard specifies an architecture for media security and enabling components. Wide encryption blocks are well suited to environments where the attacker has repeated access to cryptographic communication or ciphertext, or is able to perform traffic analysis of data access patterns. The standard is oriented towards fixed-size encryption blocks without data expansion, but anticipates an optional data expansion mode to resist attacks involving data tampering.
***** MESSAGE FROM THE WORKING GROUP CHAIR *****
This is the anticipated follow-up to the successful narrow-block XTS-AES mode, standardized in IEEE Std 1619-2007 (currently under consideration by NIST as an Approved Mode of Operation for FIPS 140-2).
P1619.2 includes two wide-block modes: EME2-AES and XCB-AES. Each mode also has valuable test vectors and implementation advice. Links to reference implementations in C will be made available from the
siswg.net website.
We expect the sponsor ballot to start within a few weeks after the invitation period ends, and will be completed by Jan/Feb 2009.
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