A Strategy for Analyzing Public Comments and Preparing the Round 2 Status Report

Introduction This report was developed for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as the first deliverable under Purchase Order 43SBNB067018. It is intended to suggest one or more strategies that the Computer Security Division at NIST can use to 1) systematically organize and analyze public comments on the AES finalists and the AES process, and 2) prepare a Round 2 status report that will also announce the AES winner(s). The opinions expressed in this report are those of the author, and are not intended to reflect any positions held by the NIST AES team or official positions of CygnaCom Solutions.