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Rijndael is a block cipher that provides a mapping from plaintext blocks to ciphertext blocks and vice versa under a cipher key.
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On October 2, 2000, NIST officially announced that Rijndael, without modifications, would become the AES [6]. Rijndael supports all combinations of block lengths and key lengths that are a multiple of 32 bits with a minimum of 128 bits and a maximum of 256 bits. The Rijndael reference specification can be found in ([4], App. E). AES is equal to Rijndael limited to a block length of 128 bits and supports for key length of 128, 192, or 256 bits. AES is specified in [5].
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The most important feature of Rijndael is its consistent good performance among a wide range of platforms.
On smartcards, Rijndael can be implemented using less than 1 kb of code (tables included), and using 36 bytes of memory. Since the text input and the key take both 16 bytes, only 4 bytes...
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Daemen, J., Rijmen, V. (2011). Rijndael. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_611
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