Bart Preneel
Template:Short description Template:BLP sourcesTemplate:Infobox scientist
Bart Preneel (born 15 October 1963 in Leuven, Belgium<ref name=":1">Template:Cite journal</ref>Template:Better source needed) is a Belgian cryptographer and cryptanalyst. He is a professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in the COSIC group.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
He was the president of the International Association for Cryptologic Research<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in 2008–2013 and project manager of ECRYPT.<ref name="cosicpeople">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
EducationEdit
In 1987, Preneel received a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven.<ref name="cosicpeople" />
In 1993, Preneel received a PhD in Applied Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="cosicpeople" /> His dissertation in computer science, entitled Analysis and Design of Cryptographic Hash Functions, was advised by Joos (Joseph) P. L. Vandewalle and René J. M. Govaerts.<ref name=":0" />
CareerEdit
Along with Shoji Miyaguchi, he independently invented the Miyaguchi–Preneel scheme,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> a structure that converts a block cipher into a hash function, used eg. in the hash function Whirlpool.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He is one of the authors of the RIPEMD-160 hash function.<ref>Template:Cite conference</ref> He was also a co-inventor of the stream cipher MUGI<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> which would later become a Japanese standard,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and of the stream cipher Trivium<ref>Template:Citation</ref> which was a well-receivedTemplate:Weasel inline entrant to the eSTREAM project.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
He has also contributed to the cryptanalysis of RC4,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> SOBER-t32,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> MacGuffin,<ref>Template:Cite conference</ref> Helix,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Phelix,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Py,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> TPypy,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> the HAVAL cryptographic hash function,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and the SecurID hash function.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
ReferencesEdit
<references />