olemus
võtipleegitusega plokkšiffer (IBM, 1998), üks AES kandidaate:
plokk 128 bitti, võti 128 kuni 448 bitti
=
a block cipher, supporting 128-bit blocks and variable key size,
was IBM's submission to the AES process

ülevaateid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARS_(cipher)

http://reto.orgfree.com/us/projectlinks/MARSReport.html

https://shaih.github.io/pubs/mars/mars.pdf