RE: Bletchley Park had ten Colossi in 1944
Title: RE: Bletchley Park had ten Colossi in 1944 Perry This is not new 'news'. I am fortunate enough to live 20 miles from Bletchley (my old maths Prof. worked there on Japanese codes during the war). The trust that now leases the premises has put together an amazing exhibition and is quite open about what was at the Park during the war. They have even rebuilt (Thanks to the sterling efforts of Tony Sale et al.) a colossus and hope to rebuild a bombe in the next couple of years. As a matter of interest, the colossus can solve the problem set it twice as fast as a Pentium PC using a C program to do exactly the same task. Regards David Alexander Project Manager Information Security Consultant Qualified BS7799 Lead Auditor Triskele Ltd. Office 01491 833280 Mobile 0780 308 3130 -Original Message- From: Perry E. Metzger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 October 2000 17:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bletchley Park had ten Colossi in 1944 The British government is going to release a report on the Colossus machines built at Bletchley Park, after 55 years of silence. It turns out that they had ten of the things, and they were used to break German codes used for communication between Berlin and military commands. Really interesting stuff -- I hope the final report gets put online when it becomes available because it is going to be neat reading. http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003549412141223=VP4uZ 5Zxatmo=tttdpg=/et/00/9/7/ecfcol07.html -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Quality NetBSD Sales, Support Service. http://www.wasabisystems.com/
Rijndael wins
I was unable to get in on the webcast, but third parties inform me the winner was Rijndael (pronounced like "rhine dahl" for ignorant English speakers.) -- Perry E. Metzger[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Quality NetBSD Sales, Support Service. http://www.wasabisystems.com/
Re: Rijndael wins
Perry: Right. My article will be going up on wired.com shortly, if it hasn't already. Meanwhile, here's an excerpt below. Also see a press release from the winner, who was notified in advance: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/cosic/press/pr_aes_english.html So were other firms and analysts, who had statements at the event for reporters to peruse. -Declan Excerpt: "We chose this system because of its low memory, its easy access to parallelism, its fast key setup, and easy implementation," said NIST Director Ray Kammer. Kammer said a panel of NIST cryptographers decided on one cipher instead of multiple standards because of concerns about interoperability. He said there were no patent or licensing issues for programmers to worry about with this cipher or any of the other finalists. "If Moore's law continues and quantum computing doesn't manifest itself, then I think this system will have a good 30 year run," Kammer said. On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 11:58:24AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: I was unable to get in on the webcast, but third parties inform me the winner was Rijndael (pronounced like "rhine dahl" for ignorant English speakers.) -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Quality NetBSD Sales, Support Service. http://www.wasabisystems.com/
Re: AES winner to be announced Monday.
The following information from the Rijndael Page http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael/index.html may come in handy later today when NIST announces the new Advanced Encryption Standard (AES): 'Rijndael FAQ 1.How is that pronounced ? If you're Dutch, Flemish, Indonesian, Surinamer or South-African, it's pronounced like you think it should be. Otherwise, you could pronounce it like "Reign Dahl", "Rain Doll", "Rhine Dahl". We're not picky. As long as you make it sound different from "Region Deal". 2.Why did you choose this name ? Because we were both fed up with people mutilating the pronunciation of the names "Daemen" and "Rijmen". (There are two messages in this answer.) 3.Can't you give it another name ? (Propose it as a tweak!) Dutch is a wonderful language. Currently we are debating about the names "Herfstvrucht", "Angstschreeuw" and "Koeieuier". Other suggestions are welcome of course. Derek Brown, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, proposes "bob".' At 9:50 PM +0200 9/30/2000, Nomen Nescio wrote: Though NIST is being very secretive regarding the AES announcement, they let the following rumors leak: 1. There is a single winner. 2. It is not an American design. If so, this rules out MARS, RC6, and Twofish. But now comes the third rumor: 3. The winner is not covered by any patent or patent claim identified or disclosed to NIST by interested parties. Assuming this is true, there is only one algorithm that is not explicitly mentioned in Hitachi's claim: Rijndael.
