Maybe, if their reasoning for trusting the NIST competition result holds up to scrutiny. Do you have any links to trustworthy organizations which wholly endorse the results, with a detailed write-up as to why?
> However the way this standardization worked - and several others before, like AES and SHA-3 - is that NIST made a public competition. They basically asked everyone to submit proposals and then asked everyone to find flaws in theses proposals.
> These competitions have a very good reputation in the cryptographic community.
A very brief google search provided citations to the proposals and counter-attacks for your perusal.
