I'm not trying to spread rumors, I'm just trying to cross check what
I've heard. Certainly Rijndael is under a lot of scrutiny during this
1 year review period. So it wouldn't surprise me if it gets adjusted
before becoming the standard. It's a rather common thing for a brand
new cipher to get tweaked a bit in response to analysis results.

- Alex

At 07:14 AM 11/14/2001 -0300, Paulo Barreto wrote:
>Alex Alten <Altenhome.com> wrote
>
>> BTW, I was talking to a cryptanalyst over at ISSI and he was having
>> his doubts about some aspects of Rijndael. Has anyone heard whether
>> or not it will get tweaked before it becomes the AES standard?
>
>Either clearly expose what these 'doubts' are or stop spreading such
>nonsense and boring (*) rumors.
>
>Paulo Barreto.
>
>(*) I was tempted to qualify this as 'yet another stupid rumor' but
>refrain from doing so.
>
>
>

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