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Selecting the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES): Raising the Bar for Cryptography.

Published

Author(s)

William E. Burr

Abstract

This paper describes how the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) selected the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), a new standard symmetric key encryption algorithm that has been adopted for use by the US Federal Government, for Standards and Technology (NIST). The paper also describes the NIST follow-on efforts to bring other Federal cryptographic standards up to the same level of strength as AES and to update and extend the NIST standard cryptographic modes of operation.
Citation
Selecting the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES): Raising the Bar for Cryptography.
Volume
1 No. 2

Keywords

advanced encryption standard, AES, block cipher, cryptography, encryption modes, encryption standard modes of opteration, FIPS 197, Rijndael

Citation

Burr, W. (2003), Selecting the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES): Raising the Bar for Cryptography., Selecting the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES): Raising the Bar for Cryptography. (Accessed July 27, 2024)

Issues

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Created March 1, 2003, Updated February 17, 2017