The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

• Result of a public process
• Evaluation criteria:
  • Security
  • No licensing
  • Computational efficiency
  • Memory requirements
  • Flexibility (key size, block size, time/memory tradeoffs)
  • Hardware and software suitability
  • Simplicity of design
• Acts on 128-bit blocks
• Key 128, 192 or 256 bits (for 10, 12, 14 rounds)

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