Re: Release 1.3 of my AES implementation

From: Brian Gladman (fake_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 08/03/03 

Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 18:05:59 +0100

Tom St Denis wrote:
> Russ Lyttle wrote:
>> Just a quible. The positioning of the copyright notice doesn't seem
>> to protect the annex. Also the wording of the copyright is unclear.
>> I can't use it right now because of that. It would be helpful if you
>> put out a version under the GPL or freeBSD licenses.
>
> Not to toot my own horn but there are better AES sources out there.
> Gladman's code is very fast, mine is about as fast [at least faster
> than MKS's code].
>
> Also my code is portable [MKS'es is not] and my code is public domain
> [MKS'es is not]. :-)
>
> Gladman's code is the fastest but also not portable and is under a
> copyrighted PD-like license.

My C code is highly portable - at last count it had been run on about 100
different systems without problems.

Portability is not an absolute property - if it was no code could ever be
claimed to be portable.

   Brian Gladman