Bart Preneel

Bart Preneel
Born	(1963-10-15) 15 October 1963
Alma mater	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Occupation	COSIC
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
Doctoral students	Christophe De Cannière Frederik Vercauteren Souradyuti Paul
Website	http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~preneel/

Bart Preneel (born October 15, 1963) is a Flemish cryptographer and cryptanalyst. He is a professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in the COSIC group,. He was the president of the International Association for Cryptologic Research in 2008-2013 and project manager of ECRYPT.

Simultaneously with Shoji Miyaguchi, he invented the Miyaguchi–Preneel scheme, a robust structure used in hash functions such as Whirlpool. He is one of the authors of the RIPEMD-160 hash function. He was also a co-inventor of the stream cipher MUGI which would later become a Japanese standard, and of the stream cipher Trivium which is a well-received entrant to the eSTREAM project.

He has also contributed to the cryptanalysis of RC4, SOBER-t32, MacGuffin, Helix, Phelix, Py, TPypy, the HAVAL cryptographic hash function and the SecurID hash function, among others.

External links

• Home page
• Bart Preneel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project