NIST has published the 33 comments received on the proposed Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) intended to replace DES. Several are quite extensive. In addition to those exemplars we've seen here by Bill Stewart and Bruce Schneier, there are remarks by several crypto luminaries, such as Ron Rivest and Clifford Adams (author of CAST), by NSA, by Canada's CSE, and by Certicom, 3Com, TIS, MasterCard, the ANSI X9 Standards Committee, the ABA and so on. http://jya.com/aes-comments.txt (103K)