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Real 802.11 Security: Wi-Fi Protected Access and 802.11i
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Real 802.11 Security: Wi-Fi Protected Access and 802.11i

by Jon Edney, William A. Arbaugh
July 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
480 pages
12h 4m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Appendix A. Overview of the AES Block Cipher

The AES block cipher is the same as the Rijndael algorithm but with a fixed block size of 128 bits (see Chapter 12). In IEEE 802.11i RSN, a further simplification is made by restricting the key size as well as the block size to 128 bits. The following description relates only to the RSN version.

You can think of the encryption of the block of data as a sort of production process in which various operations are applied repeatedly until the finished product, the ciphertext, is produced. A medieval blacksmith made a sword by starting with a strip of iron and repeatedly heating it, hammering it, adding impurities, folding it, and quenching it in cold water. By folding the metal ten times, the sword ended ...

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