The First 20 Years of Rijndael
Speaker: Prof. Vincent Rijmen, Katholieke Universitiet Leuven, Belgium, and University of Bergen
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Abstract
About 20 years ago Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen finished the design of Rijndael, the block cipher that would be selected by NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in 2000. Since then, Rijndael itself but also its underlying design strategy has become very influential in the world of cryptography, and today provides security on virtually all electronic devices in the industry, society, and everyday life.
The talk will begin with an explanation of the original design strategy of AES. Next, a survey of the highlights of the first 20 years of Rijndael will be given, and the talk will conclude with the most recent interesting developments and an outlook towards the future of Rijndael.
Prof. Rijmen is an internationally recognized authority in the field of cryptography, best known among the cryptographic community for his design of the Rijndael block cipher which was selected by NIST as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in 2000. Nowadays, whenever one uses a computer or mobile phone, swipes a credit card, logs in to a Wi-Fi hotspot or opens a secure online banking app, AES is the very algorithm keeping one’s personal data secure.
For this work, Vincent Rijmen was named one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35 by MIT Technology Review (TR100) in 2002.
