AES & Block Cipher Operations

Write a 1000 word, APA style paper that explains the following:

• How AES achieves confusion and diffusion.
• The degree to which you think AES is susceptible to each of the following attacks, a. Brute Force, b. Birthday attack, c. Timing attack, d. Algebraic attack.
• The effectivenss of DES as an encryption algorithm.  Identify its strengths and weaknesses. 
• Finally, explain why the electronic code book implementation of DES should be limited to the transmission of short messages.

Include a title page and 2-3 references.  Only one reference may be located online (not Wikipedia).

Must be original.