On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 10:02:14AM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
> The article reports that the European Commission, instead of adopting the
> same standard and showcasing it as a European technology success story,
> intends to continue with its own competition and postpone its decision until
> 2002.
The article is not very accurate, it's also not just. Even a quick
look at NESSIE pages (http://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/nessie/)
shows that the project has much broader scope than AES. Block cipher is
only one of ~10 topics covered by NESSIE. It's also not the case that
EC ignores AES and Rijndael - NESSIE team has contributed to the AES
reviews. Also, take a look at the proposed block ciphers and, especially,
who's submitting Noekeon.
I'm not in any way involved into the NESSIE work, it's just what I
think after reading the article, then the project's pages and then
private comments from Mr. Courtois (creator of Quartz, Flash and Sflash
algorithms) in response to my article on NESSIE at http://ipsec.pl/
(in Polish, sorry).
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Paweł Krawczyk <http://ceti.pl/~kravietz/>
