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Re: What's Up with AES FIPS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Tue Jan 2 14:37:31 2001
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
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Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 14:01:54 -0500
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In message <200012281632.LAA03914@maynard.mail.mindspring.net>, John Young writ
es:
>NIST states on its Web site that a draft FIPS for AES would
>be issued for comment "shortly after announcement of the
>winner (probably in November 2000)." Anything scandalous
>behind the delay?
>
>From what I've heard, it's just process issues. (I discussed it
briefly with someone from NIST during the IETF meeting last month, and
I did not come away with any feeling of concern.)
--Steve Bellovin
