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In 2000, NIST announced the selection of the Rijndael block cipher family as the winner of theAdvanced Encryption Standard (AES) competition. Three members of the Rijndael family arespecified in this Standard: AES-128, AES-192, and AES-256. These use cryptographic keys of128, 192, and 256 bits to encrypt and decrypt data in blocks of 128 bits.
Citation
Federal Inf. Process. Stds. (NIST FIPS) - 197-upd1
Dworkin, M.
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Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Federal Inf. Process. Stds. (NIST FIPS), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.FIPS.197-upd1, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=936594
(Accessed June 9, 2023)