According to sci.crypt it's rijndael. ---Matt On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Ian S. Nelson wrote: > Wasn't DES covered by a patent? I know Lucifer was and DES is closely > related. Patent or no patent, AES should be fairly liberal in terms of usage > restrictions. I don't remember the rules but I thought that there was some > provision for patents. > > Anyone know who won yet? The NIST webcast page doesn't work. > > > Marc Mutz wrote: > > > Alex, it might be that we lose: > > > > "Michael H. Warfield" wrote on gnupg-devel: > > > > > <snip> > > > Serpent apparently is subject to a claim by Hitachi that it holds > > > a patent over some aspect of it. Rumor has it that it's out of the race. > > > That's based on a coderpunks posting which I have not been able to > > > independently verify. > > > > > <snip> > > > > Marc > > > > > Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/ > Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
