Re: RC5 Patent Awarded

Bruce Schneier (schneier@counterpane.com)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 05:17:03 -0600

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At 10:06 PM 3/10/98 -0800, Alex Alten wrote:
>At 05:36 PM 3/9/98 -0600, Bruce Schneier wrote:
>>
>>You might want to wait a few months for our AES submission.
>>
>
>I haven't been following AES to closely. What are the
>major design criteria? For example is there a minimum
>performance required? Does it require key recovery?

128-bit block cipher with key lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits.
Efficient, flexible, secure.

My webpage has pointers to the NIST links, as well as more
comments by me about the whole process.

Bruce
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