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AES
Stands for Advanced Encryption Standard. It is a symmetric, or secret-key, cipher used in hardware and software to protect classified information and encrypt sensitive data. The AES encryption uses a number of transformations that shift and mix the data in a table.
| First released | 2001 |
| Developed by | The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology |