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Glossary: Security+ Exam Prep 3: Practice Exams

AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)

Also written: AES, AES-128

A widely used symmetric encryption standard. AES-128 gives 128 bits of security, which matches an RSA key of about 3072 bits.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

RSA (Rivest, Shamir and Adleman)