MARS - a candidate cipher for AES


Published: Feb 27, 2000 Updated: Feb 27, 2000 Section: Network Security Library :: Cryptography Author: IBM Corporation Printable Version Adjust font size: Rating: 4/5 - 2 Votes 1 2 3 4 5

MARS is a shared-key (symmetric) block cipher, supporting 128-bit blocks and variable key size. It is designed to take advantage of the powerful operations supported in today's computers, resulting in a much improved security/performance tradeoff over existing ciphers. As a result, MARS offers better security than triple DES while running significantly faster than single DES.

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