An 8- and 12-bit block AES cipher
Cryptography and Security
2025-08-27 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms
Software Engineering
Abstract
Because it is so unusual, or hard to find, or expository, a truly tiny 8- or 12-bit block AES (Rijndael) cipher is documented here, along with Java source code.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2508.18485,
title = {An 8- and 12-bit block AES cipher},
author = {Peter T. Breuer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.18485},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
This "research note" of mine from 2013 has been requested so often from me over the years, along with requests for a way to cite it properly, that I think it's appropriate to put it out on the web in a citeable archive. Arxiv, step up