Madhu Venugopal madhu.venugopal@cs.ucsb.edu, skand@cs.ucsb.edu CS290G - Project Proposal - Implementation of AES In this project we propose to implement the AES cryptographic scheme on the Unix platform. Further, we plan to evaluate the speed and performance of our implementation against other well known implementations of AES. Specifically, we use the paper by D. J. Bernstein and Peter Schwabe titled "New AES software speed records" for a thorough evaluation of our approach.