Everything You Want To Know About AES, But Were Afraid To Ask …
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5 min readJan 22, 2022
The workhorse of the cybersecurity industry is AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and which is used to encrypt and decrypt data. The method comes from the winner of a NIST competition in 2001, and was previously known as the Rijndael (“Rain Dahl”) cipher.
AES is a symmetric key method, and where Bob and Alice have the same encryption key. In the following…
