On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:38:30 -0400, "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com> wrote:
I can't get the web page myself, but the appended message is in sci.crypt today:
Peter Trei ------------------------ From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org> 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: Deadline for AES...
Tim Tyler wrote:
No official announcement of the date has been posted yet on http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/
The new notice just went up at this site: announcement to be made 2 Oct with simultaneous webcast. They (explicitly) won't say yet how many algorithms have been chosen as the AES. There's no mention of new versions of SHA-* with appropriately longer hashes. -- Jim Gillogly Sterday, 8 Winterfilth S.R. 2000, 17:00 12.19.7.10.12, 8 Eb 15 Chen, Fifth Lord of Night
Though NIST is being very secretive regarding the AES announcement, they let the following rumors leak: 1. There is a single winner. 2. It is not an American design. If so, this rules out MARS, RC6, and Twofish. But now comes the third rumor: 3. The winner is not covered by any patent or patent claim identified or disclosed to NIST by interested parties. Assuming this is true, there is only one algorithm that is not explicitly mentioned in Hitachi's claim: Rijndael.