FYI: AES patch

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Gregor Longariva wrote:

> > When did Werner say this?
> 
> I can not imagine Werner did really said this ;-) Werner, am I wrong?

I can't remember that I said this;  there is an archive to check it.

> publicly admit their own existence) checked the algorithm and changed the
> S-Boxes. This was the only thing done by NSA (officially to assure IBM did

And 15 or so years later it became clear why they did this.  Those
changed S-Boxes are better suited against differential cryptanalysis
- a method the NSA knew about 15 years before the academic
researchers.

Ciao,
   
   Werner


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