Service contributions

On this page I collect some notes that I have sent into standards bodies. None of these notes are actual publications; see my list of papers for on-line papers. Note: I exclude from this page most of the contributions for which three is a corresponding academic paper.


[ipsec]
Phillip Rogaway
Comments on NIST's RMAC Proposal
Contribution to NIST, December 2, 2002.
Criticism on NIST's planned recommendation of RMAC, a "salted MAC" that they hope defeats birthday attacks.


[ccm]
Phillip Rogaway
Some Comments on WHF Mode (now called CCM Mode)
Contribution to the IEEE. March 6, 2002
CCM mode is to be the mandatory authenticated-encryption method of IEEE 802.11 (wireless LANs). A more up-to-date analysis will be written when I have the time.


[xcbc]
John Black and Phillip Rogaway
A suggestion for handling arbitrary-length messages with the CBC MAC
Contribution to NIST.
See the CRYPTO '00 paper for a full exposition.


[ctr]
Helger Lipmaa, Phillip Rogaway, and David Wagner
Counter-mode encryption
Contribution to NIST, September 2000
Motivate and discusses CTR mode, which I was hoping that NIST would include in a future modes standards.
Afterwards: the current NIST modes do now include counter mode.


[ipsec]
Phillip Rogaway
Problems with proposed IP cryptography
Contribution to IETF IPsec, April 3, 1995.
Note: the explanations in Section 4 / Recommendation 4 are now out-of-date; see the literature on encrypt-then-mac vs. mac-then-encrypt.
Afterwards: this note generated such an unpleasant reaction from the IETF community that I have never contributed to them again!


[gcsapi]
Phillip Rogaway
Generic Cryptographic Service Application Program Interface (GCS API)
Contribution to X/Open and the IEEE. June 1994.



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