ISO 20038

Banking and related financial services — Key wrap using advanced encryption standard (AES)

General information

Current stage: 60.00 Effective date: 25 pri 2026

Originator: ISO

Owner: ISO/TC 68/SC 2

Type: International Standard

Scope

ISO 20038:2017 defines a method for packaging cryptographic keys for transport. This method can also be used for the storage of keys under an AES key. The method uses the block cipher AES as the wrapping cipher algorithm.
Other methods for wrapping keys are outside the scope of this document but can use the authenticated encryption algorithms specified in ISO/IEC 19772.

Life cycle

PREVIOUSLY

PUBLISHED
ISO 20038:2017

NOW

IN_DEVELOPMENT
ISO 20038
60.00 Standard under publication
25 pri 2026