AES Encryption for COBOL - Sponsored Whitepaper

This white paper isn’t going to try to sell you the concept of data encryption. If you’re reading this, you already know you need to encrypt confidential information. What this document will do, is help you fit the encryption process simply and securely into COBOL applications without the need for expensive encryption specialists.

Essentially, encryption protects data that needs to be kept secret by combining it with an apparently random string of bits. A perfectly valid random string could be derived from a room full of people, repeatedly flipping a coin, accumulating the results. Fortunately, labour saving devices known as computers can be used to produce a pseudo-random string with greater reliability and at much less expense. It’s the secure, reliable production of these pseudo-random strings that the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) was designed to address.