A Survey on Various Cryptanalytic Attacks on the AES Algorithm

Abstract

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Algorithm is popularly being used for securing classified information of Military and Banking services. This has led to intensifying the research on various attacks on AES algorithm either to test the security of the algorithm itself or to obtain the secret information i.e. the key. The AES algorithm is constantly subjected to various cryptanalytic attacks since its release in 2001. However, most of these attacks are theoretical and have been incapable of breaking the AES algorithm completely. These attacks are performed on the reduced rounds of the AES algorithm are compared with the brute force attack for time and data complexity. The brute force attack tries all possible values of keys and is the most effective technique of cryptanalytic technique. This research paper presents an extensive survey on various existing cryptanalytic attacks on the AES Algorithm.