Advanced Encryption Standard

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Summary

Advanced Encryption Standard is a technical standard[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of technical standard entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,710 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: block cipher[3], Federal Information Processing Standard[4], substitution–permutation network[5]
  • Founder: Vincent Rijmen[6], Joan Daemen[7]
  • Based on: Square[8]
  • Commons category: Advanced Encryption Standard[9]
  • Inception: 1998[10]
  • Publication date: 2000[11]
  • IPA transcription: ˈrɛindaːl[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Advanced Encryption Standard[13]
  • Described by source: Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, 2nd edition[14], ISO/IEC 18033[15]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/aes[16], https://crypto.stackexchange.com/tags/aes[17]
  • Block size: 128 bit[18]

Why It Matters

Advanced Encryption Standard has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 63 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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