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Types of Encryption, Methods & Use Cases

eSecurity Planet

National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST) made a public request for potential ciphers. By 2001, the NIST dubbed it the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and officially replaced the use of DES. This article was originally written by Sam Ingalls and published on May 26, 2022.