- Bart Preneel
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occupation =Professor ,COSIC
website = http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~preneel/Bart Preneel is a Belgian
cryptographer andcryptanalyst . He is a professor atKatholieke Universiteit Leuven , in theCOSIC group, [cite web
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accessdate = 2008-03-27] president of theInternational Association for Cryptologic Research , and project manager ofECRYPT .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 theRIPEMD-160 hash function. He was also a co-inventor of thestream cipher MUGI which later on went on to become a Japanese standard, and of the stream cipher Trivium which is a well-received entrant to theeSTREAM project.He has also contributed to the cryptanalysis of
RC4 ,SOBER-t32 , MacGuffin, Helix,Phelix , Py, TPypy, theHAVAL cryptographic hash function and theSecurID hash function, among others.References
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* [http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~preneel/ Home page]
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