Bart Preneel

Bart Preneel (born 15 October 1963 in Leuven, Belgium^{[1][better source needed]}) is a Belgian cryptographer and cryptanalyst. He is a professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in the COSIC group.^[2]

Bart Preneel
Born	(1963-10-15) 15 October 1963 (age 61) Leuven, Belgium
Alma mater	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Known for	Hash Functions cryptanalysis RIPEMD Miyaguchi-Preneel scheme
Scientific career
Fields	Cryptography
Institutions	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven University of California at Berkeley
Doctoral advisor	Joos Vandewalle René Govaerts
Website	http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~preneel/

He was the president of the International Association for Cryptologic Research^[3] in 2008–2013 and project manager of ECRYPT.^[4]

Education

In 1987, Preneel received a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven.^[4]

In 1993, Preneel received a PhD in Applied Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.^[5][4] 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.^[5]

Career

Along with Shoji Miyaguchi, he independently invented the Miyaguchi–Preneel scheme,^[6][7][8] a structure that converts a block cipher into a hash function, used eg. in the hash function Whirlpool.^[9] He is one of the authors of the RIPEMD-160 hash function.^[10] He was also a co-inventor of the stream cipher MUGI^[11] which would later become a Japanese standard,^[12][13] and of the stream cipher Trivium^[14] which was a well-received^{[weasel words]} entrant to the eSTREAM project.^[15]

He has also contributed to the cryptanalysis of RC4,^[16] SOBER-t32,^[17] MacGuffin,^[18] Helix,^[19] Phelix,^[20] Py,^[21] TPypy,^[22] the HAVAL cryptographic hash function,^[23] and the SecurID hash function.^[24]