A High-Degree Algebraic-Resistant Variant of the Advanced Encryption Standard [pdf]

"In this note we show that a key component of AES in fact contains a backdoor the allows the Belgian Government and The Catholic Church (the forces behind Rijndael / AES design, who obviously hid the backdoor in the cipher) to secretly eavesdrop on all AES communications"

lolwut

I'm half surprised they didn't define algebra resistance as one of P=?NP Person's super powers.

"...the Impossible Boomerang Attack (IBA) which are especially dangerous as impossible boomerangs are truly impossible while regular boomerangs are possible boomerangs"

wutlol

There's more. Probably just a cheesy way to write a paper you'll retract / rewrite anyway?

Possibly someone trying to expose bad conferences and journals by submitting this paper and see if it gets accepted.

Or perhaps simply for a challenge.

Go all the way to appendix B for the serious part.

It's interesting how, besides the obvious jokes in every other sentence, the paper is otherwise almost plausible.

Finland, a bar, and a "research" paper... This all makes sense now guys.