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

Abstract

In 1997, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) initiated a process to select a symmetric-key encryption algorithm to be used to protect sensitive (unclassified) Federal information in furtherance of NIST's statutory responsibilities. In 1998, NIST announced the acceptance of fifteen candidate algorithms and requested the assistance of cryptographic research community in analyzing the candidates. This analysis included an initial examination of the security and efficiency characteristics for each algorithm. NIST reviewed the results of this preliminary research and selected MARS, RC6(TM), Rijndael, Serpent and Twofish as finalists. Having reviewed further public analysis of the finalist, NIST has decided to propose Rijndael as the Advance Encryption Standard (AES). The research results and rationale for this selection are documented in this report.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 02, 2000
Accession Number
ADA396556

Entities

People

  • Elaine Barker
  • James Nechvatal
  • Lawrence Bassham
  • Morris Dworkin
  • William Burr

Organizations

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

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  • Algorithms
  • Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
  • Case Studies
  • Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductors
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Cryptography
  • Energy Consumption
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Intellectual Property
  • Operating Systems
  • Security
  • Standards

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  • Computer science

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