The document describes the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) block cipher. AES has a block size of 128 bits and supports key sizes of 128, 192, and 256 bits. It was published by NIST in 2001. The AES algorithm consists of initial round, main rounds, and final round. Each round uses sub-operations like SubBytes, ShiftRows, MixColumns, and AddRoundKey. The number of main rounds depends on the key size, being 10 for 128-bit keys. Decryption uses the inverse of each sub-operation.