| Pseudocode for Key Expansion () Algorithm | |
| 1 | procedure Key Expansion (key) |
| 2 | i ← 0 3 |
| 3 | while i ≤ Nk −1 do 4 |
| 4 | w[i] ← key[4 ∗ i..4 ∗ i + 3] |
| 5 | i ← i + 1 6 |
| 6 | end while |
| 7 | while i ≤ 4 ∗Nr + 3 do |
| 8 | temp ← w [i − 1] |
| 9 | if i mod Nk = 0 then |
| 10 | temp ← SubWord(RotWord(temp))♁Rcon[i/Nk] |
| 11 | else if Nk > 6 and i mod Nk = 4 then |
| 12 | temp ← SubWord(temp) |
| 13 | end if |
| 14 | w[i] ← w[i−Nk]♁temp |
| 15 | : i ← i + 1 |
| 16 | end while |
| 17 | return w |
| 18 | end procedure |