In January 1997, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the start of an initiative to develop a new encryption standard: the AES. The AES selection process was open in which 15 candidates were accepted for the first evaluation round and 5 finalists were announced in the second round. On October 2, 2000, NIST officially announced that Rijndael would become the AES. In this chapter, a number of cryptographic algorithms from the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) candidates accepted for the first evaluation round process are analysed.
Below you can find a legend describing the cryptographic criteria used in this chapter:
| NL | Nonlinearity |
| NL2 | 2-nd order nonlinearity |
| LD | Linearity distance |
| DEG | Algebraic degree |
| AI | Algebraic immunity |
| MAXAC | Absolute indicator |
| σ | Sum-of-squares indicator |
| LP | Linear potential |
| DP | Differential Potential |
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