Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) - An Update

摘要

On January 2, 1997, the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US announced that they intend to initiate the development of a new world-wide encryption standard to replace the Data Encryption Standard (DES). A call for candidates was announced world-wide with the deadline of 15th June 1998. Totally, 15 candidates were submitted from the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia. The author is the designer of one of the candidates,a nd a codesigner of another proposal.