Rijndael: A Successor to the Data Encryption Standard
Michael Welschenbach · Apress eBooks · 2001
The american national institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched a competition in 1997 under the aegis of an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with the goal of creating a new national standard (federal information processing standard, or FIPS) for encryption with a symmetric algorithm. Although we have concentrated our attention in this book on asymmetric cryptography, this development is important enough that we should give it some attention, if only cursorily. The new standard should establish an encryption algorithm that satisfies all of today’s security requirements and that in all of its design and implementation aspects will be freely available without cost throughout the world. Finally, it should replace the dated data encryption standard (DES), which, however, as triple DES will remain available for use in government agencies. In the future, however, the AES is to be the cryptographic basis of the American administration for the protection of sensitive data. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.