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Re: Disk encryption standards (was: RE: Two ideas for random number g eneration]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Crowley)
Mon May 13 19:35:12 2002
To: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>
Cc: "'Bill Stewart'" <bill.stewart@pobox.com>,
"'cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com'" <cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com>,
"'cryptography@wasabisystems.com'" <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
From: Paul Crowley <paul@ciphergoth.org>
Date: 14 May 2002 00:10:05 +0100
In-Reply-To: "Trei, Peter"'s message of "Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:17:05 -0400"
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"Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com> writes:
> Bill: you might want to look at: www.siswg.org, which is looking at just
> this
> problem. Here's the meat of a couple messages I received about it:
>
> > The IEEE Technical Committee on Information Assurance has
> > started a standards project on storage encryption, covering
> > encryption algorithms, integrity algorithms, and key management.
> > A common criteria protection profile is also proposed. Jim Hughes
> > (Storage Tek) is chair and invites cryptographers to participate in
> > the project.
> >
> > This work potentially has wide application, from hard disk storage
> > to PDAs.
There's some discussion of these issues in the paper presenting my
(broken) block cipher Mercy, which was meant for this application:
http://www.ciphergoth.org/mercy/
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