4. Challenge 1
• 1997
• 84 days
• “ The secret
message is:
Many hands
make light work”
Challenge 2
• 1998
• 3 Days
• “Time for
those 128-
256 bit
keys”
Challenge 3
• 1999
• 22 hrs 15 mins
• “See you in
Rome !”
9. Byte
Substitution
• Data is
converted
into a matrix
Shift Rows
• Rows are
shifted to
left
Mix Column
Add Round
Key
Columns are
transformed
By a special
function
Bytes of matrix
are x-or’ed to key