The Rainy Doll Who Advanced The Cause of Privacy More Than Anything Else in History
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7 min readAug 26, 2018
NIST held a competition around the turn of the millennium for a new standard: AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) [read about competition here]. After a short of five candidates, the RIJNDAEL (‘Rain-doll’) method came out on top. It uses a 128-bit block size, and supported 128-bit, 192-bit and 256-bit encryption keys. It has since become the…
