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A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
This one is not directly related to NetBSD right now, but it will be, eventually:
It's AES, the successor of the DES encryption algorithm explained
in a comic-like way. It comes as a play in four acts: First
some historical predecessors and related events are introduced,
followed by some general crypto basics and a general overview of
how AES works. The last act gives some introduction to the math
behind it - enjoy! :-)
Oh, and why do I think this will be
related to NetBSD? Well, there's software cryptography
today, and to some extent there are drivers for
accelerated crypto co-processors that are supported by
NetBSD's
opencrypto(9) framework. Even more, some VIA
CPUs already have AES hardware on board. With
Intel and AMD adding them to their marked-dominating
CPUs, I envision that cryptography will happen in a lot
more places when they hit the streets. And I guess
we can be sure that this will impact all operating
systems via standards and protocols.
[Tags: aes, rijndael]
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