AES key schedule

The Advanced Encryption Standard uses a key schedule to expand a short key into a number of separate round keys. The three AES variants have a different number of rounds. Each variant requires a separate 128-bit round key for each round plus one more.^{[note 1]} The key schedule produces the needed round keys from the initial key.
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