AES Rijndael Cipher explained as a Flash animation

UPDATE: The Flash app got rewritten in HTML5! Now it is interactive again, and you can click through it in your own pace: Thumbs up! And thank you Enrique Zabala for letting us know. Original text below: ______________________ NOTE: I DID NOT CREATE THIS FLASH ANIMATION. I ONLY RECORDED THIS VIDEO, IN ORDER TO SAVE IT FOR THE POST-FLASH WORLD. Many years ago I came across a clickable flash animation that explained how the Rijndael cipher works. And even though Rijndael is pure, complex math, the animated visualizations made the whole process so crystal clear that I had to bend down to the floor afterwards to pick up my dropped jaw. Since then I know how powerful animated visualizations can be, even (or rather especially) for abstract and/or complex topics. When I started my Go blog, I knew I had to use animations because they are worth a thousand