(AEs) The NIsT' s replacement for the Data Encryption standard (DEs). The Rijndael /rayn-dahl/ symmetric block cipher, designed by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, was chosen by a NIsT contest to be AEs. AEs is Federal Information Processing standard FIPs-197. AEs currently supports 128, 192 and 256-bit keys and encryption blocks, but may be extended in multiples of 32 bits. start . {Rijndael home page (http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael/)}. (2003-07-04)
