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Galois Finite Fields and the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-17 Cached

A university lecture (CS 463) explaining how Galois finite fields GF(2^8) underpin the Advanced Encryption Standard, covering field addition as XOR and polynomial-based multiplication for substitution tables.

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