[Cryptography] Why Rijndael ?

Peter Schwabe peter at cryptojedi.org
Mon Nov 2 16:21:03 EST 2015


Darkpassenger <darkpassenger at unseen.is> wrote:
> Hello ,

Dear dp,

> 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 ?

The best document I now of is the report by NIST on why they chose
Rijndael:
http://csrc.nist.gov/archive/aes/round2/r2report.pdf

Best regards,

Peter
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