books.google.de - The Belgian block cipher Rijndael was chosen in 2000 by the U.S. government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to be the successor to the Data Encryption Standard. Rijndael was subsequently standardized as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which is potentially the world’s...http://books.google.de/books/about/Algebraic_Aspects_of_the_Advanced_Encryp.html?hl=de&id=29pQAAAAMAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAlgebraic Aspects of the Advanced Encryption Standard