Crypto experts laud US Gov't adoption of AES

Though top cryptographers have gained a reputation for fighting the US government based on encryption policy issues, attendees of the RSA Data Security Conference joined to praise the US government's selection of an Advanced Encryption Standard, or AES. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology was given the annual RSA Public Policy award.

Adi Shamir, the "S" in RSA and professor in the applied mathematics department of Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science said, "I would like to say that after all this time that people bashed the government, it's nice that they did something right for once." Whitfield Diffie, considered the father of cryptography, said, "The process of convincing people and the government has gone really slowly, but in the last year it seems to have finally come to fruition."

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