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Illustrated AES but Not for Dummies!

By , About.com Guide   September 28, 2009

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Encryption can be a complicated subject but developer Jeff Moser decided to simplify explaining it. He got out a pen and after reading up on the subject came up with A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) plus accompanying C# code to help study it.

The AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) was the winner of a competition to produce a replacement for the DES (data Encryption standard0 which had become crackable due to advances in computing power and better mathematical techniques. It looks like it might take quite a few more years before the same is true for AES. The big worry is that some genius mathematician might come up with a break through perhaps in factorizing large numbers. It hasn't happened yet so for now we can all sleep safe.

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September 29, 2009 at 3:23 am
(1) Krzysztof Kliś says:

There is another comic about security and encryption:

http://xkcd.com/538/

So much for AES :-)

February 16, 2012 at 7:43 pm
(2) James says:

“The big worry is that some genius mathematician might come up with a break through perhaps in factorizing large numbers.”

AES has nothing to do with large prime factorization. Your article is wrong.

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