Download or read book Report on the Development of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.