[Cryptography] Why Rijndael ?

Devon Smythe devon at lithiumnode.com
Mon Nov 2 16:19:02 EST 2015


No paper that I've seen, but I do recall Rijndael beating the competition 
in the speed department, although I think it was a 10-round variant. 
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong here.

[t]

On Mon, 2 Nov 2015, Darkpassenger wrote:

> Hello ,
> is there a paper with crypto details explaining why NIST chose Rijndael 
> over
> MARS (from IBM), RC6 (from RSA Laboratories), Serpent (from Ross 
> Anderson,
> Eli Biham and Lars Knudsen) and Twofish (from Bruce Schneier, John 
> Kelsey,
> Doug Whiting, David Wagner, Chris Hall and Niels Ferguson) as the AES ?
>
> regards
> -dp
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