The U.S. government likes that number. Earlier this month, it selected Rijmen and Daemen's brainchild as the new Advanced Encryption Standard. That means Rijndael will soon become the shield of choice to protect sensitive U.S. government information, financial transactions and Internet . . .
The U.S. government likes that number. Earlier this month, it selected Rijmen and Daemen's brainchild as the new Advanced Encryption Standard. That means Rijndael will soon become the shield of choice to protect sensitive U.S. government information, financial transactions and Internet traffic. AES will replace Data Encryption Standard, or DES, invented by IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) in the 1970s, which has become vulnerable to breaches from powerful supercomputers.
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