On Oct 23, 2013, at 7:43 AM, Stephen Kent <[email protected]> wrote: > The major NIST crypto standards are the result of solicitations that are open > to the world, at least > in the recent past.AES was developed by two Belgians. SHA-3 is the result of > work more Belgians. > Should we infer that NSA co-opted theseBelgian crypto experts?
Rijndael was accepted unchanged as AES. Thats why as part of everything, people still trust it. Keccak however, is being mysteriously changed in the SHA-3 process, which is not inspiring confidence in the process: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/will_keccak_sha-3.html -- Nicholas Weaver it is a tale, told by an idiot, [email protected] full of sound and fury, 510-666-2903 .signifying nothing PGP: http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/data/nweaver_pub.asc
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