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Re: [Cfrg] RFC 5742 conflict review for draft-dolmatov-kuznyechik

"Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL" <uri@ll.mit.edu> Tue, 02 February 2016 18:37 UTC

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On 2/2/16, 13:27 , "Cfrg on behalf of Salz, Rich" <cfrg-bounces@irtf.org
on behalf of rsalz@akamai.com> wrote:

>Why is there no design document comparable to that for Rijndael?
>
>Perhaps because it wasn't trying to win a global contest for a new crypto
>standard?

A good point - but if I recall correctly, Russia held some kind of
internal competition. There were several candidates, and this one was
selected, somehow. In short, they did try to win some kind of a contest
(unless I’m badly mistaken).

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