Talk:Rijndael

Probably shouldn't go in the article, but I've heard from a reliable source that it was going to be called Rijndaem but was changed to Rijndael as the first name was used by a mental institution (googling about I presume this was Rijndam Rehabilitation in Rotterdam). --Imran 13:18, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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Non-Nederlands was changed to Dutch recently. Dutch was avoided in the original case because the author (me) had learned from more than one citizen of Holland that 'Dutch' evoked unpleasant memories of occupation and that other terms were preferred. The edit summary noted that they (the inventors) were Belgian, and in fact they are. But they are 'Dutch' speaking Belgians. Though I presume they speak French and English as well.

ww 20:35, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

AES Redirect

Rijndael redirects to AES. AES is a special case of Rijndael, and I don't believe the redirect should blindly occur. For example Rijndael can use a 32-byte block size while AES is fixed at 16-bytes. From cs.ucsb.edu/~koc/cs178/docs/rijndael.pdf: "Rijndael is an iterated block cipher with a variable block length and a variable key length. The block length and the key length can be independently specified to 128, 192 or 256 bits." I believe PHP Mcrypt has a 32-byte block size implementation of Rijndael. Jeffrey Walton 13:15, 23 December 2012 (UTC)