2. The Key Expansion Part 2: SubWord

The next helper function we will need for our key expansion is SubWord. SubWord takes an input of 4 bytes like the previous function, and returns an output of 4 bytes as well. SubWord is basically an Sbox, each bytes are checked against a look up table and replaced by their associated value. Here's the look up table:

.0 .1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7 .8 .9 .A .B .C .D .E .F
0. 63 7c 77 7b f2 6b 6f c5 30 01 67 2b fe d7 ab 76
1. ca 82 c9 7d fa 59 47 f0 ad d4 a2 af 9c a4 72 c0
2. b7 fd 93 26 36 3f f7 cc 34 a5 e5 f1 71 d8 31 15
3. 04 c7 23 c3 18 96 05 9a 07 12 80 e2 eb 27 b2 75
4. 09 83 2c 1a 1b 6e 5a a0 52 3b d6 b3 29 e3 2f 84
5. 53 d1 00 ed 20 fc b1 5b 6a cb be 39 4a 4c 58 cf
6. d0 ef aa fb 43 4d 33 85 45 f9 02 7f 50 3c 9f a8
7. 51 a3 40 8f 92 9d 38 f5 bc b6 da 21 10 ff f3 d2
8. cd 0c 13 ec 5f 97 44 17 c4 a7 7e 3d 64 5d 19 73
9. 60 81 4f dc 22 2a 90 88 46 ee b8 14 de 5e 0b db
a. e0 32 3a 0a 49 06 24 5c c2 d3 ac 62 91 95 e4 79
b. e7 c8 37 6d 8d d5 4e a9 6c 56 f4 ea 65 7a ae 08
c. ba 78 25 2e 1c a6 b4 c6 e8 dd 74 1f 4b bd 8b 8a
d. 70 3e b5 66 48 03 f6 0e 61 35 57 b9 86 c1 1d 9e
e. e1 f8 98 11 69 d9 8e 94 9b 1e 87 e9 ce 55 28 df
f. 8c a1 89 0d bf e6 42 68 41 99 2d 0f b0 54 bb 16

To read this table, split your input in two:

Examples:

Go ahead and implement this function. Below is the Sbox represented in Golang, that might be helpful.

var sbox_en = [256]byte{
    0x63, 0x7c, 0x77, 0x7b, 0xf2, 0x6b, 0x6f, 0xc5, 0x30, 0x01, 0x67, 0x2b, 0xfe, 0xd7, 0xab, 0x76,
    0xca, 0x82, 0xc9, 0x7d, 0xfa, 0x59, 0x47, 0xf0, 0xad, 0xd4, 0xa2, 0xaf, 0x9c, 0xa4, 0x72, 0xc0,
    0xb7, 0xfd, 0x93, 0x26, 0x36, 0x3f, 0xf7, 0xcc, 0x34, 0xa5, 0xe5, 0xf1, 0x71, 0xd8, 0x31, 0x15,
    0x04, 0xc7, 0x23, 0xc3, 0x18, 0x96, 0x05, 0x9a, 0x07, 0x12, 0x80, 0xe2, 0xeb, 0x27, 0xb2, 0x75,
    0x09, 0x83, 0x2c, 0x1a, 0x1b, 0x6e, 0x5a, 0xa0, 0x52, 0x3b, 0xd6, 0xb3, 0x29, 0xe3, 0x2f, 0x84,
    0x53, 0xd1, 0x00, 0xed, 0x20, 0xfc, 0xb1, 0x5b, 0x6a, 0xcb, 0xbe, 0x39, 0x4a, 0x4c, 0x58, 0xcf,
    0xd0, 0xef, 0xaa, 0xfb, 0x43, 0x4d, 0x33, 0x85, 0x45, 0xf9, 0x02, 0x7f, 0x50, 0x3c, 0x9f, 0xa8,
    0x51, 0xa3, 0x40, 0x8f, 0x92, 0x9d, 0x38, 0xf5, 0xbc, 0xb6, 0xda, 0x21, 0x10, 0xff, 0xf3, 0xd2,
    0xcd, 0x0c, 0x13, 0xec, 0x5f, 0x97, 0x44, 0x17, 0xc4, 0xa7, 0x7e, 0x3d, 0x64, 0x5d, 0x19, 0x73,
    0x60, 0x81, 0x4f, 0xdc, 0x22, 0x2a, 0x90, 0x88, 0x46, 0xee, 0xb8, 0x14, 0xde, 0x5e, 0x0b, 0xdb,
    0xe0, 0x32, 0x3a, 0x0a, 0x49, 0x06, 0x24, 0x5c, 0xc2, 0xd3, 0xac, 0x62, 0x91, 0x95, 0xe4, 0x79,
    0xe7, 0xc8, 0x37, 0x6d, 0x8d, 0xd5, 0x4e, 0xa9, 0x6c, 0x56, 0xf4, 0xea, 0x65, 0x7a, 0xae, 0x08,
    0xba, 0x78, 0x25, 0x2e, 0x1c, 0xa6, 0xb4, 0xc6, 0xe8, 0xdd, 0x74, 0x1f, 0x4b, 0xbd, 0x8b, 0x8a,
    0x70, 0x3e, 0xb5, 0x66, 0x48, 0x03, 0xf6, 0x0e, 0x61, 0x35, 0x57, 0xb9, 0x86, 0xc1, 0x1d, 0x9e,
    0xe1, 0xf8, 0x98, 0x11, 0x69, 0xd9, 0x8e, 0x94, 0x9b, 0x1e, 0x87, 0xe9, 0xce, 0x55, 0x28, 0xdf,
    0x8c, 0xa1, 0x89, 0x0d, 0xbf, 0xe6, 0x42, 0x68, 0x41, 0x99, 0x2d, 0x0f, 0xb0, 0x54, 0xbb, 0x16,
}
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