AES: The next frontier in network security?

theHighlander writes: “DES may soon be a passe, what with Rijndael now being chosen by the NIST as the Advanced Encryption Standard. Though Rijndael with its complex algorithm codes, compactness and design simplicity has a great potential for application in handheld and wireless computers, the moot question is, will the block cipher-designed code be safe enough? Read on… “