A key length n=128 was considered to be secure. 25 * Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. 26 *. 27 * @section Description. 28 *. 29 * AES is an encryption standard based on Rijndael algorithm, a symmetric block. 30 * cipher that can process data blocks of 128 bits, using cipher keys with. 31 * lengths of 128, 192, and 256 bits. The key length can be 16, 24, or 32 bytes (128, 192, or 256 bits). The algorithm is referred to as AES-128, AES-192, or AES-256, depending The input to the encryption and decryption algorithms is a single 128-bit block. In FIPS PUB 197, this block is depicted as a 4 * 4 square matrix of bytes.