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Rijndael Cryptanalysis Results

Posted by michael on from the numbers-game dept.

Anonymous Coward writes: "It appears by reading here that the Rijndael encryption algorithm has had more organized cryptanalysis performed against it and might not have fared too terribly well even using up to 9 rounds." Rijndael is one of the candidates for the U.S. Government's next-generation encryption standard.

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  1. The obvious has to be said... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    Since Round 2's comment period ended (go fig) the only real candidates have been Serpent and Rijndael. We've yet to see an even remotely applicable assault on Serpent as submitted, Serpent's speed has increased by a factor of 2-4 to catch up with everyone else, and in many cases leave them in the dust on raw speed, and now possibly assaults are being found on relatively beefy variants of it's only competitor, Rijndael. Looks like the underdog might get the gold afterall. Here's rootin' for da' snake in da' grass!