Sure, NIST ran the competition, but AES was designed by Daemen and Rijmen in Belgium, and vetted by a whole host of other academic cryptographers in an open pro

Sure, NIST ran the competition, but AES was designed by Daemen and Rijmen in Belgium, and vetted by a whole host of other academic cryptographers in an open process. There's enough to be paranoid about already. No need to looking for problems where there aren't any.