I was the one who updated the Wikipedia entry . It was shortly before
the cryptography list came back up. I found the June 2003 CNSS fact
sheet while looking for other information on NIST's standards
program. The first reference that I found that suggested AES could be
used for classified was
I missed that announcement too -- but Wikipedia, the web-based Free
Encyclopedia, caught it! See Wikipedia on AES at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES
The Wikipedia module on AES Security has a link to the same NSA fact sheet
Steve mentioned.
I was surprised. I thought, as in so many other t
I haven't seen this mentioned on the list, so I thought I'd toss it
out. According to http://www.nstissc.gov/Assets/pdf/fact%20sheet.pdf ,
AES is acceptable for protecting Top Secret data. Here's the crucial
sentence:
The design and strength of all key lengths of the AES algorithm
(i.e.,
