Advanced Encryption Standard

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Advanced Encryption Standard definition

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)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © Denis Howe 2010 http://foldoc.org
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