A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

Secretary of Commerce Don Evans announced December 4, 2001, the approval of a new information technology encryption standard for the federal government. The Advanced Encryption Standard, or AES, also ...

The U.S. Commerce Department has approved a new, stronger data-encryption standard intended to replace an aging standard first adopted in 1977. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is intended to ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Commerce rolled out a new U.S. encryption standard for the federal government on Tuesday (Dec. 4) in hopes that industry will also embrace it. The Advanced Encryption ...