Computing Dictionary
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)
