Readings on AES
Some readings on AES you might be interested in:
handout by Landau on AES
, p. 458, "Rijndael". (This was handed out in class.)
The winning AES proposal
. (Notice especially Section 7, on "Motivation for design choices".)
Pictures illustrating the AES algorithm
Slides
from a talk by the AES authors, especially pp. 7--14
You may also want to take a look at the NIST
AES
and
Rijndael
web pages.