- Stands for Advanced Encryption Standard
- One of the most secure encryption methods
- Used by governments, security organizations, everyday businesses…
- Uses symmetric key encryption.
- Someone on the receiving end will need a key to decode it.
- AES encrypts data in a single block (AES-128 with 128-bit size blocks, AES-192 with 192-bit size blocks, AES-256 with 256-bit size blocks)