Report on the Development of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Download or read book Report on the Development of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) written by James Nechvatal and published by . This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997, NIST initiated a process to select a symmetric-key encryption algorithm to be used to protect sensitive (unclass.) Fed. info. In 1998, NIST announced the acceptance of 15 candidate algorithms and requested the assistance of the cryptographic research community in analyzing the candidates. This analysis included an initial exam. of the security and efficiency characteristics for each algorithm. NIST reviewed the results of this research and selected MARS, RC, Rijndael, Serpent and Twofish as finalists. After further public analysis of the finalists, NIST has decided to propose Rijndael as the AES. The research results and rationale for this selection are documented here.