I'm with Alex on this one - surely it's more spreading rumours if you
actually specify possibly incorrect facts. Maybe we should rename this
list from coderpunks to codertrolls.

Mj

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Alex Alten wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> --
>
> Alex Alten
> AltenHome.Com
>
>

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