Cryptography Reference
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Round 1:
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CAST-256: Entrust Technologies, Inc. (represented by Carlisle Adams).
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CRYPTON: Future Systems, Inc. (represented by Chae Hoon Lim).
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DEAL: Richard Outerbridge, Lars Knudsen.
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DFC: CNRS — Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Nor-
male Superieure (represented by Serge Vaudenay).
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E2: NTT — Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (represented by
Masayuki Kanda).
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FROG: TecApro Internacional S.A. (represented by Dianelos Georgoudis).
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HPC: Richard Schroeppel.
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LOKI97: Lawrie Brown, Josef Pieprzyk, Jennifer Seberry.
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MAGENTA: Deutsche Telekom AG (represented by Dr Klaus Huber).
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MARS: IBM (represented by Nevenko Zunic).
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RC6: RSA Laboratories (represented by Burt Kaliski).
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RIJNDAEL: Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen.
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SAFER
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: Cylink Corporation (represented by Charles Williams).
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SERPENT: Ross Anderson, Eli Biham, Lars Knudsen.
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TWOFISH: Bruce Schneier, John Kelsey, Doug Whiting, David Wagner,
Chris Hall, Niels Ferguson.
Round 2:
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MARS, RC6, Rijndael, Serpent, Twofish.
Selected after Round 3:
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Rijndael.
Figure 5.19:
The algorithms short-listed for AES.
Rijmen won the competition. The arguments why one single candidate was
selected failed to convince everybody:
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If Rijndael had practically relevant weaknesses against all odds, then the
larger key length required would provide sufficient reserve.
