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From my reading I am not sure if AES is a single, standardized algorithm that can work with different length keys, or a family of similar algorithms? What I mean is if I find any 2 AES implementations taking a 128-bit key, should I be confident they will work identically (barring bugs)?
Specifically in .Net/C#, I was confused why there are two implementations of abstract base class System.Security.Cryptography.Aes: System.Security.Cryptography.AesCryptoServiceProvider & System.Security.Cryptography.AesManaged.
Then there seems to be distinction/overlap between AES and Rijndael, .NET has Rijndael and RijndaelManaged classes, as well as RijndaelManagedTransform
What's the differences between all of these? I notice AES classes seem to only exist since .NET 3.5 whereas Rijndael has been around since 1.0
Sorry if these are dumb questions, I'm new to crypto other than secure hashing functions.
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The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a symmetric block cipher chosen by the U.S. government to protect classified information. AES is implemented in software and hardware throughout the world to encrypt sensitive data. It is essential for government computer security, cybersecurity and electronic data protection.
ECC and AES create the most advanced and efficient cryptographic technique over the cloud storage. We can say that single AES is little bit slower than the hybrid (ECC-AES) method due to its larger key size, while the hybrid method allows reduced key size as well as a faster security mechanism for securing the data.
AES Crypt is free open source software. As open source, several people have contributed to and/or reviewed the software source code to ensure that it works properly to secure information.
The National Security Agency (NSA) and many other U.S. government entities, including the military, use AES encryption for encrypted communications and secure data storage daily. LastPass, a password management service, uses AES encryption to keep its users' passwords safe from hackers and even LastPass employees.
AES, the Advanced Encryption Standard, defines in FIPS PUB 197 three symmetric block-ciphers: AES-128, AES-192 and AES-256. All three algorithms are defined by specific parameter-choices for the Rijndael algorithm.
AES-128-encryption is a function (key, data) -> (encryption). Rijndael-encryption is a function (key, data, block-size, key-size) -> (encryption).
AesCryptoServiceProvider uses the underlying Windows CryptoAPI to perform the encryption.
AesManaged performs the encryption in pure managed code. RijndaelManaged supports the full range of parameter-choices (also in pure managed code).
Advantages to using AesCryptoServiceProvider include potential for higher speed and the fact that CryptoAPI is FIPS certified (on certain versions of Windows).
Advantages to AesManaged include portability (AesCryptoServiceProvider is not supported on all versions of Windows).
The only advantage to RijndaelManaged is that it is supported in early versions of the .NET framework - I haven't ever seen anyone use the non-AES parameter-choices.
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