Vincent Rijmen

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

In 1993, Rijmen finished his studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Then he made a doctoral study at the 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 at COSIC lab Together with Dr. 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 the Data Encryption Standard (DES ) was chosen.

Since August 1, 2001 Rijmen works for the company Cryptomathic. From May 2001 to September 2004 Rijmen also worked as a visiting professor at the Technical University of Graz, in October 2004, he had a full professorship at the Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications ( IAIK ) at Graz University of Technology. He led the IAIK the IAIK Krypto Group and lectured on cryptography. He is currently a faculty member of the COSIC Group at KU Leuven in Belgium.