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[Bryan-TheBS-Smith]

Richard Zimmerman wrote:
> For what it is worth, I'd thought this would be worth sharing. Our
> government has chosen a new encryption standard. The link below is to the
> NIST website with more information.
> Richard
>  http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/

You might be interested in this post I made back in October of 2000.  It
also has a link to a related /. story:
http://www.matrixlist.com/pipermail/leaplist/2000-October/006600.html

One thing I have found out since is that the AES competition _required_
all submissions to be _royalty_free_!  So (to answer my own question in
the post), Rijndael is royalty free.  The more recent crypto libraries
(OpenSSL 0.9.6+ I believe?) feature both Rijndael and Twofish as
included ciphers.

-- TheBS

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