[Cryptography] Why Rijndael ?

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On 2015-11-02 13:21, Peter Schwabe wrote:

> 
> Dear dp,
> 
> 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

Thank you and the list for responses -- although they all were pointing 
to one
same source , which is NIST's own report .

for my own reasons , i do not trust NIST's crypto opinion , therefore i 
make my
question a bit more clear :

are there papers and studies apart from NIST or other usg bodies with 
"comparative"
approach between the algos i mentioned in my original mail , and the 
study results
in some kind of rationale that cryptoanalitically Rijndael was a better 
choice ?
-- a paper that at least appears to be independent and not funded by 
like doe or
similar players .

regards
-dp