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Re:GOST cryptography – Russian Federation’s cryptographic al... by lucb1e on Friday October 21, 2016 @08:43PM (#12766229)
Belgium is an America loving country though, like all of western Europe as far as I know, and Americans usually quite aware who the friends and 'terrorists' are. I wonder if AES had been from, I don't know, Kenya or Kazakhstan or Bolivia, if it had had much chance at all (though I'm not up to date on the exact America-sentiment in each of those countries, we hardly hear about them in Western news).
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Re:GOST cryptography – Russian Federation’s cryptographic al... by tptacek on Friday October 21, 2016 @08:46PM (#12766249)
Rijndael, the Belgian cipher in question, famously won a very well-regarded cryptographic contest to obtain its role as AES. "Belgium" has nothing to do with it.
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Re:GOST cryptography – Russian Federation’s cryptographic al... by lucb1e on Saturday October 22, 2016 @06:17AM (#12768119)
I know it was a Belgian cryptographer, not Belgium the state. I still think the country has makes a difference in how people regard an entry for the contest.
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Re:GOST cryptography – Russian Federation’s cryptographic al... by pvg on Saturday October 22, 2016 @10:04AM (#12768718)
Cryptographic algorithm competitions are more rigorous than beer competitions.
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Re:GOST cryptography – Russian Federation’s cryptographic al... by lucb1e on Sunday October 23, 2016 @11:05AM (#12773844)
Of course, but do you think an algorithm from a state that most Americans see as "behind" or even a "terrorist state" has a perfectly equal chance of winning? The judges might even explicitly try to give each an equal chance but at least subconsciously, I would expect there to be some bias.
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Re:GOST cryptography – Russian Federation’s cryptographic al... by pvg on Monday October 24, 2016 @01:46AM (#12776920)
You can read about the AES process here with many detailed references you can follow up on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard_p...

The submitters were not countries but (typically groups of) practitioners. Only one proposal was made by a group consisting entirely of Americans and it did not win. Like all such processes, I'm sure this particular one was imperfect and could be made better. You're making it sound like the judging of an Olympic Ice Dancing event, though, and I think all available evidence suggests that it wasn't.

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Re:GOST cryptography – Russian Federation’s cryptographic al... by Ar-Curunir on Friday October 21, 2016 @11:52PM (#12767078)
AES beat out American ciphers from the likes of Bruce Schneier and David Wagner.
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