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This section introduces the advanced encryption standard (AES), and describes the AES main functions and connections in the device.
The AES security modules provide hardware-accelerated data encryption and decryption operations based on a binary key. The AES is a symmetric cipher module that supports a 128-, 192-, or 256-bit key in hardware for encryption and decryption. The AES module is based on a symmetric algorithm, meaning that the encryption and decryption keys are identical. To encrypt data means to convert it from plaintext to an unintelligible form called cipher text. Decrypting cipher text converts previously encrypted data to its original plaintext form.
The main features of the AES accelerator follow: