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eRevolution: "Europe shuns its own Net cipher"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Fri Nov 24 10:30:11 2000
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From: Larry Moffett <larry@e-s.be>
Subject: eRevolution: "Europe shuns its own Net cipher"
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 06:14:23 -0800
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That's the headline from a recent article in The Standard, referring to the
"Rijndael" security algorithm developed by Belgian cryptographers that was
chosen by the US Commerce Department to encrypt sensitive US government
data. Rijndael won the competition, defeating entries from IBM, RSA and 12
others.
The article reports that the European Commission, instead of adopting the
same standard and showcasing it as a European technology success story,
intends to continue with its own competition and postpone its decision until
2002.
With all those lofty speeches at the IST conference in Nice praising
European technological excellence still ringing in my ears, I'm sure the EC
has its reasons...
http://europe.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,12736,00.html?mail
Larry
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