The Design of Rijndael: AES - The Advanced Encryption Standard

by Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen

An authoritative and comprehensive guide to the Rijndael algorithm and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). AES is expected to gradually replace the present Data Encryption Standard (DES) as the most widely applied data encryption technology. This book, written by the designers of the block cipher, presents Rijndael from scratch. The underlying mathematics and the wide trail strategy as the basic design idea are explained in detail and the basics of differential and linear cryptanalysis are reworked. Subsequent chapters review all known attacks against the Rijndael structure and deal with implementation and optimization issues. Finally, other ciphers related to Rijndael are presented.

255 pages, Hardcover

First published February 14, 2002

Reviews

[Jeff]

This a good book, straight from the creators. The latter chapters were a bit hard to follow, but the early chapters made it worth the read.

After reading the book, I created "A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)" blog post following a sort of weird daydream I had of what it would be like to talk to Rijndael.

[Mike]

The model behind AES encryption standards