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29 June 1998
Source: http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/aes_home.htm

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Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
Development Effort

Last Modified: June 29, 1998 - Added a "Related Link"

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Miscellaneous

• Related Links

  (By listing the following links, NIST is NOT implying that any of these algorithm submissions have been accepted as "complete and proper" candidates for the AES. NIST intends to officially announce the AES candidates in August 1998, at the First AES Candidate Conference and in a Federal Register announcement.)

  • http://www.rsa.com/pressbox/html/980415.html,
    http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/rc6.pdf
    
  • http://www.adfa.oz.au/~lpb/research/loki97/
    
  • http://www.cylink.com/SAFER
    
  • http://www.counterpane.com/twofish.html
    
  • http://entweb.entrust.com/resources/whitepapers.htm
    
  • http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael/
    
  • http://www.research.ibm.com/security/mars.html
    
  • http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/#Cryptanalysis

See also: The Block Cipher Lounge - AES