Joan Daemen
Joan Daemen (born
1965) is a Belgian
cryptographer and one of the designers of
Rijndael, the
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), together with
Vincent Rijmen. He has also designed or co-designed the
MMB,
Square,
SHARK,
Noekeon and
3-Way block ciphers.
Daemen was born in
Achel, in the
Limburg province of
Belgium. In
1988, he graduated in electro-mechanical
civil engineering at the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He subsequently joined the COSIC research group, and has worked on the design and cryptanalysis of
block ciphers,
stream ciphers and
cryptographic hash functions. Daemen completed his PhD in
1995, at which point he worked at
Janssen Pharmaceutics for a year in
Beerse. He subsequently worked at
Bacob,
Banksys and then
Proton World.
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Biography at NIST*
Publications listed at DBLP*
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