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Re: Rijndael & NTRU
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paulo S. L. M. Barreto)
Tue Oct 3 11:41:21 2000
From: "Paulo S. L. M. Barreto" <paulo.barreto@terra.com.br>
To: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 06:34:59 -0200
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On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, Vin McLellan wrote:
> Apparently the fact that Rujndael was the/a leading AES candidate
> was apparent to some prescient souls (not me <sigh>) at least since AES3 in
> N.Y. last April. As Bram Cohen <bram@gawth.com> put it:
>
> .> The selection of Rijndael was actually quite predictable - the round 2
> ..> report made it pretty clear that the only real contenders were Rijndael
> c.> and Twofish, and hey, that last coin toss is free with 20/20 hindsight :)
Actually I had the clear impression that there were three real contenders:
Rijndael, Serpent, and Twofish, in this order.
Paulo.
