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Subject: Re: Rijndael & Hitachi
From: Julian Assange (proffsuburbia.net)
Date: Sun Oct 08 2000 - 03:03:16 CDT


> That a Belgian cryptosystem was eventually selected as the
> American AES may make it easier to dismiss those fears overseas, and may
> hasten the adoption of AES internationally. Full AES standardization and
> interoperability, a good thing, should come more quickly.

Not so, inprepid Vin. A Belgian cipher was chosen simply because
the NSA was able to operate with relative impunity in that region,
in which it has huge per-capita deployment, compared to a similar
actions on its own soil.

Cheers,
Julian.