In October 2000, the US National Institute of Standards and
Technology selected the block cipher
Rijndael as the
Advanced
Encryption Standard (AES).
AES is expected to
gradually replace the present
Data Encryption Standard
(DES) as the most widely applied data encryption
technology. This book by the designers of the block cipher
presents Rijndael from scratch. The underlying mathematics
and the wide trail strategy as the
basic design idea are
explained in detail and the basics of differential and
linear cryptanalysis are reworked. Subsequent chapters
review all known attacks against the Rijndael structure and
deal with implementation and optimization issues. Finally,
other ciphers related to Rijndael are presented.
This volume is THE authoritative guide to the Rijndael
algorithm and AES. Professionals, researchers, and students
active or interested in data encryption will find it a
valuable source of information and reference.
Contents
- The Advanced Encryption Standard Process
- Preliminaries
- Specification of Rijndael
- Implementation Aspects
- Design Philosophy
- The Data Encryption Standard
- Correlation Matrices
- Difference Propagation
- The Wide Trail Strategy
- Cryptanalysis
- Related Block Ciphers
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index