Advanced encryption standard
advanced encryption standard
cryptography, algorithm
(aes) the nist’s replacement for the data encryption standard (des). the rijndael /rayn-dahl/ symmetric block cipher, designed by joan daemen and vincent rijmen, was chosen by a nist contest to be aes.
aes is federal information processing standard fips-197.
aes currently supports 128, 192 and 256-bit keys and encryption blocks, but may be extended in multiples of 32 bits.
(http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptotoolkit/aes/).
rijndael home page (http://esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael/).
(2003-07-04)
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