Matt, WinMagic would be interested in
making a financial contribution. Please let me know what dollar figure you
have in mind once you have collected expressions of interest from everyone.
…Garry
From: Matt Ball [mailto:matt.ball@IEEE.ORG]
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008
10:50 AM
To: STDS-P1619@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
Subject: [STDS-P1619] IEEE 1619
XTS submission to NIST for consideration as an Approved Mode of Operation, and
Call for Sponsors
Hi All,
Here's the latest update on submitting XTS-AES to NIST:
Right now Jack Cole and I are working with IEEE-SA to ask for a copyright
release on the portion of IEEE 1619 (approved last December) that describes the
XTS-AES cryptographic mode of operation. We would like to submit XTS to
NIST for consideration as an Approved Mode of Operation for FIPS 140-2
certification. Serge Plotkin has offered to write up such a proposal.
Sun Microsystems is sponsoring me to fly out to Piscataway, NJ during the IEEE
standards board meeting (March 26-27) to discuss terms for releasing the
copyright during NIST' public review period for XTS.
IEEE is unlikely to do this for free. I don't know what the final price
will be, but it will likely be in the range of $10k - $40k. For this
reason, I ask that all of you who benefit from the approval of IEEE 1619 XTS to
please consider donating a few thousand dollars to help IEEE 1619 gain
acceptance by NIST for FIPS 140-2. Such acceptance would be highly
strategic for many encryption products.
Please let me know if your company is able to contribute to the copyright
release of XTS. I'll need to know before March 26th, which gives you a
month or so to check budgets. Contributions would be collect in April, so
this will likely come from next quarter's budget. :)
Please let me know if you have any questions, and I thank you for your support!
--
Thanks!
Matt Ball, IEEE P1619.x SISWG Chair
M.V. Ball Technical Consulting, Inc.
Phone: 303-469-2469, Cell: 303-717-2717
http://www.mvballtech.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewvball