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Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

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A U. S. Government-approved cryptographic algorithm that can be used to protect electronic data. The AES algorithm is a symmetric block cipher that can encrypt (encipher) and decrypt (decipher) information.

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Committee on National Security Systems Glossary CNSSI 4009-2015
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