After DES was in service for many years, NIST decided that a new standard was in order: ____.
A)Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
B)RC5
C)International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA)
D)Blowfish

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NIST replaced DES with the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in 2001, due to the growing computational power available to attackers and the potential for brute-force attacks on DES. RC5, IDEA, and Blowfish are other encryption algorithms but were not selected as the new standard by NIST.

After DES Was in Service for Many Years, NIST Decided