Is there a document that provides details on NISTs selection for the AES?
NIST’s ad hoc AES selection “team” wrote a Report on the Development of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). It is a comprehensive report that discusses various issues related to the AES, presents analysis and comments received during the public comment period, summarizes characteristics of the five finalist AES algorithms, compares and contrasts the finalists, and presents NIST’s selection of Rijndael. 5.