AES winner to be announced Monday.

[Nomen Nescio]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:38:30 -0400, "Trei, Peter" <ptrei at 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 at 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.