AES competition/Catalogs/AES players
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The AES competition involved many of the world's top cryptographers.
Some of the major developments in cryptography before AES were:
- Block_cipher#DES from an IBM team that included Don Coppersmith
- Linear cryptanalysis, the first published attack to break DES faster than brute force, from Mitsuru Matsui.
- Differential cryptanalysis, discovered by Coppersmith et al, but kept secret at NSA request. Re-discovered and first published in open literature by Eli Biham and Adi Shamir.
- The RSA algorithm for public key cryptography, from Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman.
At least two writers have proposed methods of making ciphers provably resistant to linear and differential cryptanalysis, Carlisle Adams in CAST and Serge Vaudenay with his decorrelation theory.
Most of the people mentioned above, and a number of others well-known in the field, participated in the AES process.
Here is a table showing the major players. For many papers, some of the co-authors are omitted to keep it simple; see references in the main article for complete co-author lists.
| AES cipher | Team included | Attack papers from |
| Rijndael | Rijmen, Daemen | Ferguson, Schroeppel, Whiting |
| Twofish | Schneier, Kelsey, Whiting, Wagner, Ferguson | |
| Serpent | Anderson, Biham, Knudsen | |
| RC6 | Rivest | |
| MARS | Coppersmith | |
| Hasty Pudding | Schroeppel | |
| FROG | Schneier, Wagner, Ferguson | |
| Magenta | Schneier, Biham, Shamir, Ferguson, Knudsen | |
| E2 | Matsui | |
| DEAL | Knudsen | Schneier, Kelsey |
| DFC | Vaudenay | Knudsen, Rijmen |
| CAST-256 | Adams |