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| | Press release... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | On October 2, 2000, the winner was announced: the algorithm Rijndael, developed by Dr. Joan Daemen, employed at Protonworld International, and Dr. |
 | | The strong points of Rijndael are a simple and elegant design, efficient and fast on modern processors, but also compact in hardware and on smartcards. |
 | | Rijndael is freely available for everybody, and will continue to be so in the future; the designers don't gain financially from the design. |
| www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be /cosic/press/pr_aes_english.html (409 words) |
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