In the field of computer technology, some topics are so frequently and fiercely disputed that they almost resemble religious feuds — Mac vs. PC, for instance, or open source vs. proprietary software.

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), has received significant interest over the past decade due to its performance and security level. Many hardware implementations have been proposed. In most of the ...

This application note presents the implementation of AES-128 encryption with Zilog’s Z8 Encore! series of 8-bit microcontrollers. It briefly describes the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), and the ...

A group of researchers have developed a new attack that enables them to find AES keys several times faster than was previously thought possible, reducing the complexity of finding the keys on AES-128, ...