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AES: Advanced Encryption Standard

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known as Rijndael, is a block cipher adopted as an encryption standard developed by NIST. AES is intended to specify an unclassified, publicly-disclosed, symmetric encryption algorithm. AES has a fixed block size of 128 bits and a key size of 128, 192 or 256 bits.

Standard Organization

NIST

Related Document

Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 197