I am doing a project which requires the encryption to be done using AES. Is it really possible (technically) to crack AES?
If yes, please tell me:
Of course it is technically possible to crack AES. The method for doing this is to guess the correct key. Assuming you know something about the plaintext, you can easily verify that the key you guessed resulted in the correct decryption.
The probability of breaking AES using this method? AES has 128, 192 and 256 bit key variants. Thus if there are $n$ bits in the key, the probability that your guess is correct is $\frac{1}{2^n}$.
What is the role of increasing the rounds and does this make it harder to break? In general, more rounds are required to diffuse bits. That is why you see more rounds with the larger key sizes. In the specific case of guessing the key, it only slows down decryption. It does not change the probability of a break. There are other articles on this site on increasing rounds. I'll try to find them and add links.
What is the contribution of each round towards enhancing the security? This is hard if not impossible to say. If you modified AES to have only 1 round, it would be trivial to break. Up it to 10 rounds for AES-128 and we can't break it. Up that to 1 million rounds and the cipher isn't really much more secure but takes so long to encrypt or decrypt that no one will use it (a kind of dimishing returns). See fgrieu's comment for additional information.
