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AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is the new cryptographic algorithm selected for use since December 2002 by the U.S. Goverment to protect sensitive infomation.
AES is based on the Rijndael Block Cipher (developed by the Belgian cryptographers Jaoan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen), an iterated block cypher with a variable block length and key length of 128, 192 or 256-bits. | ||