Table of Contents Introduction.............................................................................................................................................................2 � The XTS algorithm itself........................................

Introduction.............................................................................................................................................................2 � The XTS algorithm itself.........................................................................................................................................2 � Comments From Moses Liskov and Kazuhiko Minematsu................................................................................2 � Comments From Vijay Bharadwaj and Neils Ferguson of Microsoft..................................................................2 � Comment From Phillip Rogaway of Univ. of CA, Davis......................................................................................4 � Comment From Boaz Shahar of Entropic Communications..............................................................................5 � Comments From Michael Willett of Seagate Technology...................................................................................6 � The depth of support in the storage industry for which it was designed..................................................................7 � Current Industry Support...................................................................................................................................7 � Hard Disk Vendors...................................................................................................................................7 � AMCC (from Paul Von Stamwitz).............................................................................................................7 � Bloombase Technologies (from Harry Xiang)..........................................................................................7 � Brocade (from Scott Kipp).......................................................................................................................8 � CipherMax (from Steven Tan)..................................................................................................................8 � EMC (from David Black)..........................................................................................................................8 � Emulex (Larry Hofer)...............................................................................................................................8 � Freescale Semiconductor (from Michael Torla).......................................................................................8 � GED-i (from Rony Shapiro)......................................................................................................................9 � Helion (from Colin Sinclair)......................................................................................................................9 � Hifn (from Doug Whiting).........................................................................................................................9 � Oxford Semiconductor (from Gary Calder)..............................................................................................9 � PMC-Sierra (from Gary Nichols and Peichen Chang).............................................................................9 � SafeNet (from Marcel van Loon)..............................................................................................................9 � Thales (from Bob Lockhart).....................................................................................................................9 � TrueCrypt.................................................................................................................................................9 � WinMagic (from Gary McCracken)..........................................................................................................9 � Comment from David Clunie............................................................................................................................10 � Comments From Michael Willett of Seagate Technology.................................................................................10 � The appeal of XTS for wider applications.............................................................................................................12 � Comment From David Clunie...........................................................................................................................12 � Comments From Michael Willett of Seagate Technology.................................................................................12 � The proposal for the approved specification to be available only by purchase from IEEE....................................13 � Comment From Vijay Bharadwaj and Neils Ferguson of Microsoft..................................................................13 � Comment from Rich Schroeppel......................................................................................................................13 � Comment From David Clunie...........................................................................................................................13 � Comments From Michael Willett of Seagate Technology.................................................................................13 � General Response...........................................................................................................................................14 � Concerns of intellectual property rights.................................................................................................................14 � Comments From Vijay Bharadwaj and Neils Ferguson of Microsoft................................................................14 � Comment From David Clunie...........................................................................................................................14 � Comments From Michael Willett of Seagate Technology.................................................................................15 � General Response...........................................................................................................................................15 � Investigation NeoScale Systems' IP Claims...............................................................................................15 � IP Claims by Rogaway................................................................................................................................16 � Conclusions and Recommendations....................................................................................................................16 � Future Work..........................................................................................................................................................16 � References...........................................................................................................................................................16 �