You are right, I'm sorry. Anyway, it's no longer necessary to ask the AES finalist teams (all of which seem to have been offline for the last few days) about NIST's announcement. Sorry again, and best wishes, Paulo.

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

Peter Trei

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---------- 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.