Advanced Encryption Standard: Attacks and Current Research Trends

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known as a specification for the encryption of electronic data. AES is comparatively highly secure and more efficient than well-known other cryptographic algorithms and existing Data Encryption Standard (DES). This work is focused in analyzing selecting valuable research publications on AES. This also discusses some machine learning techniques such as artificial neural network (ANN) used to protect side channel attack for images. Besides this, many other recent developments such as effective differential power analysis (DPA) technique and hybrid encryption algorithm using LZW have been discussed and analyzed in details. Finally, the paper concludes with a systematic analysis of different types of attacks on AES and some future research aspects in this context. Finally, this work also proposes a new model for attack detection in AES.