Information Security News: LinuxSecurity.com Speaks with AES Winner

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Fowarded by: Dave Wreski <dave () guardiandigital com>

In this interview Vincent Rijmen talks about the development of the
Rijndael algorithm, his selection as the NIST algorithm of choice for
AES, thoughts on Linux and security, and the future of Internet
security.

"Rijndael takes its name from its creators' last names, and beat out
finalists including those from IBM, RSA, Counterpane, and the Serpent
algorithm developed by a group of European cryptographers. AES will
soon replace DES as the standard algorithm for encrypting sensitive
data. It has been reported that even a machine capable of breaking the
old DES standard in a second would take some 149 trillion years to
crack the proposed AES's lowest level of security."

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/interview-aes.html

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