March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
656 pages
20h 9m
English
Hash functions are primarily used to compress a message to a fixed-length digest. In cryptographic hash mode, block ciphers are used as a compression function to produce a hash of plaintext.
With this, we have now concluded the introduction to block ciphers. In the following section, you will be introduced to the design and mechanism of a currently market-dominant block cipher known as AES.
Before discussing AES, however, some history is presented about the Data Encryption Standard (DES) that led to the development of the new AES standard.
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