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/ --- end forwarded text --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'