COMMERCE DEPARTMENT TO ANNOUNCE CHOICE FOR PROPOSED CRYPTOGRAPHY STANDARD
On October 2 at 11 a.m. ET, the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, an agency of the Commerce Department's Technology
Administration, will hold a press briefing to announce its proposed choice
to become the Advanced Encryption Standard, a new code designed to scramble
information in the 21st century. This announcement marks the completion of a
three-year, open competition conducted by NIST to select the final AES
candidate.
Dr. Cheryl L. Shavers, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology, and Ray
Kammer, Director of NIST, will make brief presentations followed by a
question and answer period for reporters. The public is invited to follow
the announcement by live webcast at http://real.nist.gov/
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R. A. Hettinga