Advanced Encryption Standard

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The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), occasionally still referred to by its original name, Rijndael (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɛindaːl], RAIN-dahl), is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The most recent incarnation of the Advanced Encryption Standard was adopted in 2001. AES is a variant of the Rijndael block cipher developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, who submitted a proposal to NIST during the AES selection process. Rijndael is a family of ciphers with different key and block sizes. For AES, NIST selected three members of the Rijndael block cipher family, each with a block size of 128 bits, though having three different key lengths: 128 bits, 192 bits, and 256 bits. AES has been adopted by the US government. AES superseded the Data Encryption Standard (DES), which had been published in 1977. The algorithm described by AES is a symmetric-key algorithm, meaning...

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