Re: The importance of IVs

On 29 Aug 2005 11:02:23 -0700, ggr@qualcomm.com (Gregory G Rose)
wrote:

>> Rijndael came in <first place, thereby winning the AES title.
>> Serpent came in second, and Twofish came in third, followed
>> by RC6 and MARS.

>There were no minor placings.

No minor placings in the sense that the non-winners didn't receive any
prizes of any kind.

>Lots of people have their opinions, but according to NIST,
>Rijndael won, the other four were equal second. (I agree
>with your order, personally, but it has nothing to
>do with reality.)

The order I listed was based entirely on reality. It wasn't just
something I made up.

The AES competition was decided by a voting process. A total of 215
votes were cast (all of them from non-NIST personnel).

The votes were as follows:

1st place: Rijndael with 86 votes
2nd place: Serpent with 59 votes
3rd place: Twofish with 31 votes
4th place: RC6 with 23 votes
5th place: MARS with 13 votes

There were 3 additional votes, which went as follows:

1 vote: "None should be selected, but I prefer Rijndael"
1 vote: "All 5 of the ciphers should be reworked"
1 vote: "I don't see a clear winner in the list"

These votes were then collected and reviewed by the NIST committee who
then selected the winner based on the votes received.
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:51:35 2005