NIST has posted public comments on XTS-AES

[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 comments, under the section "Comments On
The Proposal To Approve XTS-AES":
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/BCM/comments.html

NIST received comments from the following individuals:
* Moses Liskov, Kazuhiko Minematsu:
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/BCM/documents/comments/XTS/XTS_comments-Liskov_Minematsu.pdf
* Seagate Technology:
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/BCM/documents/comments/XTS/XTS_comments-Seagate.pdf
* Matt Ball: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/BCM/documents/comments/XTS/XTS_comments-Ball.pdf
* Collected comments:
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/BCM/documents/comments/XTS/collected_XTS_comments.pdf
 - Boaz Shahar
 - David Clunie
 - Rich Shroeppel
 - Phillip Rogaway
 - Vijay Bharadwaj, Neils Ferguson

Based on these comments, NIST will decide whether or not to approve
XTS for FIPS 140-2/140-3.

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Thanks!
-Matt

Matt Ball, IEEE P1619.x SISWG Chair
Cell: 303-717-2717
http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewvball
http://www.mavaball.net/

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