How does the AES 256 encryption work?

Question

I’ve heard AES256 is the best encryption system but how does it work.

I know how basic encryption work.

In: Technology

Answer 1

ELI5 may not do justice. But I’ll try.

First of all 256 bits is a lot of character combinations which makes it hard to overwhelm with brute force passwords attempts. Better than 128 or 64.

Added to this is the AES algorithm which groups the characters and swaps individual ones randomly such that it makes it very difficult for hacking tools to guess the pattern.

So yes it’s good for now. Once hacking tools get better – throwing more processing power or quantum computing at it – it will become obsolete as well.