Joan Daemen

Joan Daemen (born 1965, in Achel, Limburg, Belgium) 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, 3-Way, and BaseKing block ciphers.

In 1988, Daemen 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 for a year at Janssen Pharmaceutica in Beerse, Belgium. He subsequently worked at the BACOB bank, Banksys, Proton World and then STMicroelectronics.

His first name is pronounced "Jo-AHN", like the artist Joan Miro.

External links

* [http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/biojoan.htm Biography at NIST]
* [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/d/Daemen:Joan.html Publications listed at DBLP]