The Design of Rijndael

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. The Advanced Encryption Standard Process

   • Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen

   Pages 1-8

3. Preliminaries

   • Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen

   Pages 9-29

4. Specification of Rijndael

   • Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen

   Pages 31-51

5. Implementation Aspects

   • Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen

   Pages 53-62

6. Design Philosophy

   • Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen

   Pages 63-79

7. The Data Encryption Standard

   • Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen

   Pages 81-87

8. Correlation Matrices

   • Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen

   Pages 89-111

9. Difference Propagation

   • Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen

   Pages 113-122

10. The Wide Trail Strategy

    • Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen

    Pages 123-147

11. Cryptanalysis

    • Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen

    Pages 149-160

12. Related Block Ciphers

    • Joan Daemen, Vincent Rijmen

    Pages 161-173

13. Back Matter

    Pages 175-238

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Rijndael was the surprise winner of the contest for the new Advanced En­ cryption Standard (AES) for the United States. This contest was organized and run by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) be­ ginning in January 1997; Rijndael was announced as the winner in October 2000. It was the "surprise winner" because many observers (and even some participants) expressed scepticism that the D.S. government would adopt as an encryption standard any algorithm that was not designed by D.S. citizens. Yet NIST ran an open, international, selection process that should serve as model for other standards organizations. For example, NIST held their 1999 AES meeting in Rome, Italy. The five finalist algorithms were designed by teams from all over the world. In the end, the elegance, efficiency, security, and principled design of Rijndael won the day for its two Belgian designers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, over the competing finalist designs from RSA, IBM, Counterpane Systems, and an EnglishjIsraelijDanish team. This book is the story of the design of Rijndael, as told by the designers themselves. It outlines the foundations of Rijndael in relation to the previous ciphers the authors have designed. It explains the mathematics needed to and the operation of Rijndael, and it provides reference C code and underst test vectors for the cipher.

• Algorithm Design
• Discrete Mathematics
• Galois field
• Integrated Circuit Design
• Secure Communication
• Secure Networking
• Security
• Statistics
• System Security
• code
• cryptoanalysis
• cryptology
• data encryption
• data security
• encryption
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

"…an excellent choice for people who are interested in how Rijndael really works and who need more explanations than research papers usually contain. It is a book that readers will regularly consult when they need to look up details about Rijndael." –Computing Reviews

• Proton World International (PWI), Brussels, Belgium

  Joan Daemen

• Cryptomathic NV, Leuven, Belgium

  Vincent Rijmen

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