Careful on attributions. I did not say this - I quoted a usenet posting which included this line. No harm done. Peter Trei

---------- From: Paulo S. L. M. Barreto[SMTP:paulo.barreto@terra.com.br] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 6:27 PM To: Trei, Peter; 'cypherpunks@openpgp.net'; 'cryptography@c2.net'; 'coderpunks@toad.com' Subject: Re: AES winner to be announced Monday.

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Trei, Peter wrote:

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They (explicitly) won't say yet how many algorithms have been chosen as the AES.

So NIST will be silent for three more days. How about the finalist submitters? Did *they* tell anything? I'll bet NIST has contacted (or will contact) them regarding the forthcoming announcement. And the e-mail address <ptrei@rsasecurity.com> means that at least the RC6 team is easily accessible, isn't it?

Paulo Barreto.