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

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