Advanced Encryption Standard


Advanced Encryption Standard

(cryptography, algorithm)(AES) The NIST's replacement forthe Data Encryption Standard (DES). The Rijndael/rayn-dahl/ symmetric block cipher, designed by Joan Daemenand 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 andencryption blocks, but may be extended in multiples of 32bits.

http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/aes/.

Rijndael home page.