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 ### Tiny AES128 in C
 
-This is a small and portable implementation of the AES128 ECB encryption algorithm implemented in C.
+This is a small and portable implementation of the AES128 ECB encryption algorithm written in C.
 
 The API is very simple and looks like this (I am using C99 `<stdint.h>`-style annotated types):