Tom Berson details how lessons from the Advanced Encryption Standard Competition can aid the development of international NC3 components and even be mirrored in the creation of a CATALINK community. From 1997 through 2001, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (US) (NIST) ran an open, transparent, international competition to design and select a standard block cipher called the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). The competition proved productive, engaging, educational, surprising, and successful.
About the author: Tom Berson is a cryptologist and founder of Anagram Laboratories.
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