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| Subject: One of the things ERG got when it bought ProtonADOPTED AS NEW WORLD STANDARD. | |
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Author: Fundamental analysis"RIJNDAEL" ALGORITHM, |
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Date Posted: 03:11:14 01/28/03 Tue http://www.protonworld.com/press/pr/PR_2000-10-03_RIJNDAEL.pdf PRESS RELEASE 3/10/2000 p.1 "RIJNDAEL" ALGORITHM, JOINTLY- DEVISED BY PROTON WORLD EXPERT, ADOPTED AS NEW WORLD STANDARD. Brussels, 3 October 2000. Proton World announced today that the "Rijndael" cryptographic algorithm, jointly-devised by Dr Joan Daemen, a member of Proton World's Security Products Development team, and Dr Vincent Rijmen, a post-doctoral researcher at the COSIC laboratory in the Electrotechnical Engineering Department at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven), has been selected by the US Government's National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), the new world standard for electronic encryption. Algorithms are sophisticated mathematical formulae that are at the heart of computerised encryption systems. They are used to encrypt all sorts of data, from e-mail to PINs, and to generate digital signatures. NIST invited contributions from cryptographers around the world in 1997 to replace DES (Data Encryption Standard) the standard adopted in 1977 by US Government agencies that has become the de facto world-wide standard. Twenty-two teams sent entries, and "Rijndael" ("rain-darl", a name made up from its creators' surnames) was selected as one of 5 entries for the shortlist in October 1999 (see PW press release of 14 October 1999). The short-listed entries were then subjected to a barrage of attacks and tests by teams of experts for a year, and "Rijndael" emerged as the most resistant. NIST describes the process as "the Olympics of information-scrambling", making Joan and Vincent "gold medallists". The choice of "Rijndael" for AES was announced yesterday from NIST in Washington DC by Dr Cheryl L.Shavers, the US government's Under-Secretary of Commerce for Technology, and Dr Ray Kammer, the Director of NIST. The AES standard will be published in 2001, and will be available free of charge to any interested party: Joan and Vincent have renounced any intellectual property rights over "Rijndael" and will not benefit financially from it. It is anticipated that AES will be used for the next 25-30 years. Mr Yves Moulart, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice-President, Cryptography, Technology and Architecture at Proton World, said "The whole CTA department here at Proton World are very proud of Joan and Vincent's achievement and for the international recognition of their talent in this way. I congratulate them on creating the next generation of smart card security." Joan and Vincent said " We have enjoyed working together on this project that has brought some welcome recognition for Belgium on the international scene." Mr Norman Mineta, US Secretary of Commerce, said "This is a very significant step toward creating a more secure digital economy. It will allow e-commerce and e-government to flourish safely." PRESS RELEASE Mr David Aucsmith, Chief Security Architect of Intel Corp., said " We in the industry can begin to incorporate AES into our products with confidence that we are using an open, robust and vetted solution." Mr Jim Foti, a mathematician working for NIST, said "If there were a machine capable of breaking DES in a second, it would take 149 trillion years to crack the lowest proposed level of AES." END Notes for Editors PROTON WORLD was created by American Express, Banksys, ERG, Interpay and Visa International to promote and implement common smart card and electronic purse standards. Proton World delivers smart card solutions worldwide, continuing the development and licensing of Proton technology-based smart card applications, which have already been chosen by 24 countries. Proton is the world's most broadly implemented smart card technology in national roll-outs and is the most actively used world-wide: Proton-based smart card schemes have together performed more than 188 million e-purse transactions since their introduction. There are more than 290,000 Proton-compatible terminals installed worldwide. The Proton technology supports multiple applications (e.g. e-commerce, access control, loyalty schemes, campus cards etc.) and is compatible with the Common Electronic Purse Specifications (CEPS) which will ensure the interoperability of electronic purse schemes worldwide. For more information on Proton World, please visit our website at http://www.protonworld.com or contact Ms. Dominique Hautain, Executive Vice-President, Corporate Office. Telephone + 32 2 724 5111 Fax + 32 2 724 5060 e-mail info@protonworld.com THE COMPUTER SECURITY & INDUSTRIAL CRYPTOGRAPHY (COSIC) RESEARCH LABORATORY at the Electrotechnical Engineering Department of the Catholic University of Leuven is headed by Professor Joos Vandewalle and Professor Bart Preneel For more information, please visit: the "Rijndael" web site at http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael or the COSIC web site at http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/cosic THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS & TECHNOLOGY (NIST) is part of the US Government's Department of Commerce's Technology Division. For more information, please visit the NIST web site at http://www.nist.gov/aes or contact Mr Philip Bulman, telephone +1 301 975 5661 [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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