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FIPS 197: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Last modified: 2026-10-23

URL: https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/197/final

Summary

NIST standard specifying the AES block cipher (originally 2001, updated 2023). Background reference for symmetric primitives used in credential transport and storage, and for MPC-in-the-head/ZK constructions that prove AES evaluations.