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Introduction to Galois Fields for AES

A slecture by student Katie Marsh

Based on the Cryptography lecture material of Prof. Paar.



Link to video on youtube



Accompanying Notes

Finite Field/Galois Field: a finite set together with operations + and * with the following properties:

1. The set forms an additive group with neutral element 0

2. The set without 0 forms a multiplicative group with neutral element 1

3. The distributive law $ a(b+c)= (ab)+(ac) $


A finite field exist if and only if it has size $ p^m where p is prime and m \in \N $

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