3 Oct
2000
3 Oct
'00
7:06 a.m.
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.