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Re: Rijndael wins
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Mon Oct 2 13:55:48 2000
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 12:26:58 -0400
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@wasabisystems.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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In-Reply-To: <878zs76xr3.fsf@snark.piermont.com>; from perry@wasabisystems.com on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 11:58:24AM -0400
Perry: Right. My article will be going up on wired.com shortly, if it
hasn't already. Meanwhile, here's an excerpt below.
Also see a press release from the winner, who was notified in advance:
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/cosic/press/pr_aes_english.html
So were other firms and analysts, who had statements at the event for
reporters to peruse.
-Declan
Excerpt:
"We chose this system because of its low memory, its easy access to
parallelism, its fast key setup, and easy implementation," said NIST
Director Ray Kammer.
Kammer said a panel of NIST cryptographers decided on one cipher
instead of multiple standards because of concerns about
interoperability.
He said there were no patent or licensing issues for programmers to
worry about with this cipher or any of the other finalists.
"If Moore's law continues and quantum computing doesn't manifest
itself, then I think this system will have a good 30 year run," Kammer
said.
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 11:58:24AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> I was unable to get in on the webcast, but third parties inform me the
> winner was Rijndael (pronounced like "rhine dahl" for ignorant English
> speakers.)
>
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