Vincent Rijmen

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Vincent Rijmen

Vincent Rijmen (born October 16, 1970 in Leuven , Belgium ) is a Belgian cryptography expert and one of the developers of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) block cipher . Together with Paulo SLM Barreto he developed the Whirlpool hash function .

In 1993 Rijmen finished his studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven . He then did a doctorate at ESAT / COSIC in Leuven. COSIC stands for Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography.

In 1997 Rijmen finished his doctoral studies. His dissertation was entitled "Cryptanalysis and design of iterated block ciphers".

. He then worked again lab at COSIC Together with Joan Daemen , he developed the Rijndael - algorithm , which in October 2000 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) as the successor to Data Encryption Standard selected (DES) has been.

Rijmen has been working for Cryptomathic since August 1st, 2001. From May 2001 to September 2004 Rijmen was also a visiting professor at the Graz University of Technology , and from October 2004 he was a full professor at the Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communication Technology (IAIK) at Graz University of Technology. He headed the IAIK crypto group at IAIK and gave lectures on cryptography. He is currently a faculty member of the COSIC-Group at the KU Leuven in Belgium.

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