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A.E.S. Advanced Encryption Standard
AES is a small, fast, hard to crack encryption standard and is suitable
for a wide range of devices or applications. It has been determined as
the best compromise between a combination of security, performance, efficiency,
ease of implementation and flexibility.
128 bit AES offers a total of 3.4 x 10^38 individual keys. It is estimated
that if a DES key generator were able to discover 1 DES key per second,
it would take 149 thousand-billion (149 trillion) years to crack a single
128 bit AES key.
Currently, the technology is not available.
As a note, the universe is accepted as being only approximately 20 billion
years old !
AES
/ DES ?
Do I really need it
?
What is DES / AES ?
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