"Yo-an Dam-en" Joan is a male.

Born in 1965 in the Belgian village of Achel. He received a degree in Electro-Mechanical Civil Engineering from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1988, and won his Ph.D. in Cryptography in 1995. He does a lot of work with block ciphers, stream ciphers and hash functions.

Daemen has worked for Johnson and Johnson, Bacob (a Belgian bank), and Banksys (operator of most Belgian ATMs). As of this writing, he works for Proton World International, a technology provider dealing with smart cards and security issues.

Daemen is probably most famous for his work with Vincent Rijmen, a man he met while doing his doctoral research with a group called COSIC. Together, they created Rijndael ("rain-doll"), a cryptographic algorithm that has been chosen by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as the Advanced Encryption System, set to replace DES as the form of encryption used by the US government (and probably a host of other groups as well) in the summer of 2001.

Daemen and Rijmen chose the name "Rijndael" as an amalgamation of their last names, which they were tired of hearing mispronounced by careless English speakers. As long as you don't call it "Region Dale," they're happy. Other names they considered (from Dutch): "Herfstvrucht," "Angstschreeuw" and "Koeieuier." Let it never be said that math people don't have a sense of humor.


Publications by Joan Daemen:

  • J. Daemen, R. Govaerts, J. Vandewalle, "Cryptanalysis of MUX-LFSR based scramblers," Proceedings of the 3rd symposium on State and Progress of Research in Cryptography, W. Wolfowicz, Ed., Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, 1993, pp. 55-61.
  • J. Daemen, R. Govaerts, J. Vandewalle, "Block ciphers based on modular arithmetic," Proceedings of the 3rd symposium on State and Progress of Research in Cryptography, W. Wolfowicz, Ed., Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, 1993, pp. 80-89.
  • J. Daemen, R. Govaerts, J. Vandewalle, "Resynchronization weaknesses in synchronous stream ciphers," Advances in Cryptology, Proceedings Eurocrypt'93, LNCS 765, T. Helleseth, Ed., Springer-Verlag, 1994, pp. 159-169.
  • L. Claesen, J. Daemen, M. Genoe, G. Peeters, "Subterranean: a 600 Mbit/sec cryptographic VLSI chip," Proceedings of ICCD '93: VLSI in Computers and Processors, R. Camposan A. Domic, Eds., IEEE Computer Society Press, 1993, pp. 610-613.
  • J. Daemen, R. Govaerts, J. Vandewalle, "Cryptanalysis of 2,5 rounds of IDEA," ESAT-COSIC Technical Report 93/1, 1993.
  • J. Daemen, R. Govaerts, J. Vandewalle, "Weak keys of IDEA," Advances in Cryptology, Proceedings Crypto'93, LNCS 773, D. Stinson, Ed., Springer-Verlag, 1994, pp. 224-231.
  • J. Daemen, R. Govaerts, J. Vandewalle, "A new approach towards block cipher design," Fast Software Encryption, LNCS 809, R. Anderson, Ed., Springer-Verlag, 1994, pp. 18-32.
  • J. Daemen, R. Govaerts, J. Vandewalle, "An efficient nonlinear shift-invariant transformation," Proceedings of the Fifteenth Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, Louvain-la-Neuve (B), May 30-31, 1994, pp. 82-89.
  • J. Daemen, R. Govaerts, J. Vandewalle, "Correlation matrices," Fast Software Encryption, LNCS 1008, B. Preneel, Ed., Springer-Verlag, 1995, pp. 275-285.
  • J. Daemen, "Cipher and hash function design. Strategies based on linear and differential cryptanalysis," Doctoral Dissertation , March 1995.
  • V. Rijmen, J. Daemen, B. Preneel, A. Bosselaers, E. De Win, "The cipher SHARK," Fast Software Encryption, LNCS 1039, D. Gollmann, Ed., Springer-Verlag, 1996, pp. 99-112.
  • J. Daemen, L.R. Knudsen, V. Rijmen, "The block cipher Square," Fast Software Encryption, LNCS 1267, E. Biham, Ed., Springer-Verlag, 1997, pp. 149-165.
  • J. Daemen and C.S.K. Clapp, "Fast hashing and stream encryption with PANAMA," Fast Software Encryption, LNCS 1372 , S. Vaudenay, Ed., Springer-Verlag, 1998, pp.60-74. Reference implementation available.
  • J. Daemen, M. Peeters, G. Van Assche, "Bitslice ciphers and power analysis attacks," Fast Software Encryption , to appear.
List Source: the official Rijndael homepage.
http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~rijmen/rijndael/

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