Acronym for Advanced Encryption Standard
A relatively new encryption algorithm, which is taking over from DES as the standard encryption algorithm.
AES is a block cipher, designed by Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, originally called Rijndael. A "Competition" was held to see what the successor to DES should be. Rijndael was one of the candidates and won. yay.
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