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Many people evaluate the algorithms for various implementations. One person, Brian Gladman (www.seven77.demon.co.uk) has C implementations of all the algorithms on his page, his implementations in my opinion are very good and efficient.
I worked for a while with my school while I was stuck doing my thesis implementing these algorithms in hardware. Our goal was to see which had the most efficient implementation.
Other people attempt to break the algorithms in the time honored (but highly dubious) tradition we all see in spy vs. spy movies. Others still evaluate the algorithms for resilliance to known attacks (such as mathematical, power based, electrical based etc). Everyone submits papers, theoretically those papers are read and conclusions are reached.
In actuality, no one is quite sure how secure any of them are. Many have suggested using more than one AES candidate as our new standard, in the case that one is broken.
As far as developers are concerned, I suggest checking brian gladman's page, however note the license agreements. Also note that in certain countries (like the US) you may never redistribute that code outside the US boundaries (stupidist *#*#$ I've ever heard).
I worked for a while with my school while I was stuck doing my thesis implementing these algorithms in hardware. Our goal was to see which had the most efficient implementation.
Other people attempt to break the algorithms in the time honored (but highly dubious) tradition we all see in spy vs. spy movies. Others still evaluate the algorithms for resilliance to known attacks (such as mathematical, power based, electrical based etc). Everyone submits papers, theoretically those papers are read and conclusions are reached.
In actuality, no one is quite sure how secure any of them are. Many have suggested using more than one AES candidate as our new standard, in the case that one is broken.
As far as developers are concerned, I suggest checking brian gladman's page, however note the license agreements. Also note that in certain countries (like the US) you may never redistribute that code outside the US boundaries (stupidist *#*#$ I've ever heard).
