Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)<p>The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001.</p> <p>AES has been adopted by the U.S. government and is now used worldwide. It supersedes the Data Encryption Standard (DES),[7] which was published in 1977. The algorithm described by AES is a symmetric-key algorithm, meaning the same key is used for both encrypting and decrypting the data.</p> <p>See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard">AES</a></p>