NSA backdoors and Set Preferred Cipher

[Filip M. Nowak]

On 09/08/2013 01:45 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> On 9/7/2013 4:59 PM, Filip M. Nowak wrote:
>> Is CAMELLIA's pick as least preferred cipher - omitted/disregarded by
>> NIST (US) but certified by NESSIE (EU) and CRYPTREC (Japan) - is somehow
>> related to those revelations?
> 
> NIST couldn't consider it for an AES candidate because it hadn't been
> invented yet.
> 
> A brief timeline:
> 
> 1997: NIST begins the AES selection process
> 1998: Rijndael is published
> 2000: Camellia is published too late to be considered for AES
> 2000: NESSIE begins evaluating new algorithms
> 2000: CRYPTREC begins evaluating new algorithms
> 2001: Rijndael is selected to become the Advanced Encryption Standard
> 2003: CRYPTREC and NESSIE each select Camellia
> 

Good point!


	Regards,
	Filip M. Nowak