Advanced Encryption Standard, a strong, well-regarded encryption algorithm chosen by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology
the data being protected by encryption—either a disk, partition, or a file
a mathematical means of scrambling data so that it's unintelligible unless decrypted using a specific key
the small piece of data necessary to make encrypted data intelligible
the physical medium (such as a USB flash drive) used to hold the encryption key (and possibly the beginning of the boot process)
a Linux block device which appears to store data (by using another device)
software written by Jari Ruusu that implements the AES algorithm using a loopback device
a means to avoid being coerced into decrypting one's own data for an attacker
a small electronic device containing a memory chip and a USB interface