Helmut Reimer is a German

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...

. He was professor of

microelectronics Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. As the name suggests, microelectronics relates to the study and manufacture (or microfabrication) of very small electronic designs and components. Usually, but not always, this means micrometre-sc ...

at the

Technische Universität Ilmenau The Technische Universität Ilmenau (''Ilmenau University of Technology'', TU Ilmenau) is a German public research university located in Ilmenau, Thuringia, central Germany. Founded in 1894, it has five academic departments (faculties) with abo ...

from 1971. From 1980 to 1990, he also led the department for microchip production of the VEB Mikroelektronik Erfurt. From 1992 to 2007, he was managing director of

TeleTrusT TeleTrusT, officially the IT Security Association (), is a German association for IT security, based in Berlin. Founded in 1989, it is a German and international competence network for IT security, with the purpose of increasing trust in informatio ...

, an association for trustworthy information and communication technologies.

Career

Reimer studied

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at the

, graduating with a doctorate in 1964. He was professor of

in Ilmenau from 1971 to 1990. From 1980 to 1990, he also led the department for microchip production of the VEB Mikroelektronik Erfurt. He had intense contacts to production in China. After

German reunification German reunification (german: link=no, Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a united and fully sovereign state, which took place between 2 May 1989 and 15 March 1991. The day of 3 October 1990 when the Ge ...

, he had to look for other work areas. He became managing director of

, an organisation which has established reliable conditions for trustworthy application of information and communication technologies in Germany and beyond. TeleTrusT was then still in its beginning, with 15 members. Reimer directed the association towards an internationally respected competence centre for applied

cryptography Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adver ...

and

biometrics Biometrics are body measurements and calculations related to human characteristics. Biometric authentication (or realistic authentication) is used in computer science as a form of identification and access control. It is also used to identify in ...

. He initiated project groups to work on specifications for card terminals, encryption and client/server authentication. He worked towards publications, such as the 1995 book ''"Digitale Signatur & Sicherheitssensitive Anwendungen'' (Digital signature & security sensitive applications), reports such ''Kryptographische Verfahren im Gesundheits- und Sozialwesen'' (Cryptographic methods in the health and social care sector) and ''Kriterienkatalog zur Bewertung der Vergleichbarkeit biometrischer Verfahren'' (Criteria catalogue for assessing the comparability of biometric methods). Reimer organized fair participations and the international international conference Information Security Solutions Europe ISSE), held from 1999, and representation at the U.S.

RSA Conference The RSA Conference is a series of IT security conferences. Approximately 45,000 people attend one of the conferences each year. It was founded in 1991 as a small cryptography conference. RSA conferences take place in the United States, Europe, Asia ...

s. He contributed to international dialogue on the topic of IT security. Reimer left the director position of TeleTrust in July 2007, becoming an honorary member. He has been on the jury of the association's innovation prize. He is among the publishers of the trade magazine ''Datenschutz und Datensicherheit'' (DuD) of the

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Reimer was awarded the Fraunhofer SmartCard-Preis.

References

External links

Publications by Helmut Reimer
dblp.org
Helmut Reimer's scientific contributions
researchgate.net
Securing Electronic Business Processes: Highlights Of The Information Security Solutions Europe 2003 Conference
books.google.lu
TeleTrusT: Anwendung einer vertrauenswürdigen Trusted-Computing-Technologie
(in German)

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