Ron Rivest posts RC6 - New cipher for AES Sweepstakes

Vin McLellan (vin@shore.net)
Thu, 18 Jun 1998 18:51:38 -0400

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Ouch! Typo redux.

Matthew J.B. Robshaw, Raymond M. Sidney, and Yiqun Lisa Yin are credited as
co-developers of RC6 by Ron Rivest. They deserve better than to have some
hasty fool tangle the spelling of their names. Beg pardon, Matt, Lisa!

I wrote:

> Rivest has submitted RC6 to NIST as a candidate to become the US
>Advanced >Encryption Algorithm (AES). Rivest, Webster Prof of Electrical
>Engineering and Computer >Science at MIT, credits Matt Robeshaw, Ray
>Sidney, and Yigun Lisa Yin -- all on the >research staff at RSA
>Laboratories, San Mateo, Calif. -- as co-developers of RC6.

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