Wikipedia: Rijndael encryption algorithm

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After a competition Rijndael was selected as the successor to DES as the US Federal Advanced Encryption Standard (FIPS-197) block cipher for the protection of sensitive information.

Rijndael is a symmetric-key block cipher, designed by [Joan Daemen]? and [Vincent Rijmen]?. After a competition Rijndael was selected as the successor to DES as the US Federal Advanced Encryption Standard (FIPS-197) block cipher for the protection of sensitive information.

External links:

http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/