AES (Rijndael) encryption standard
Cifrado AES (Rijndael)
- Date
- 1998-2001 · confidence high
- Place
- Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; NIST, Gaithersburg, United States
- Credited to
- Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen; selected by NIST in a public competition
- People
- 👤 Joan Daemen1965–👤 Vincent Rijmen1970–
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Symmetric block cipher chosen in an open international competition to replace DES. It encrypts everything from hard drives and Wi-Fi to government communications, with dedicated instructions in processors.
What it led to
- Trust in open cryptographic standards over secret algorithms
- Default encryption in phones, disks and networks
- NIST's public-competition model, repeated for post-quantum cryptography
Built on
Made possible
- Post-quantum cryptography standards (ML-KEM, ML-DSA)2024
- full-disk encryption
- WPA2