Gilles Van Assche is a

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cryptographer 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 ...

who co-designed the

Keccak SHA-3 (Secure Hash Algorithm 3) is the latest member of the Secure Hash Algorithm family of standards, released by NIST on August 5, 2015. Although part of the same series of standards, SHA-3 is internally different from the MD5-like struct ...

cryptographic hash, which was selected as the new

SHA-3 SHA-3 (Secure Hash Algorithm 3) is the latest member of the Secure Hash Algorithm family of standards, released by NIST on August 5, 2015. Although part of the same series of standards, SHA-3 is internally different from the MD5-like struct ...

hash by

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in October 2012. The

standard was released by

on August 5, 2015. In 1998 Van Assche graduated from Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) with a Physics Engineer degree. He then went to work for

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while also working on his PhD thesis at the Center for Quantum Information and Communication at the ULB. His PhD thesis was directed by Pr. Nicolas Cerf where he researched

quantum key distribution Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a secure communication method which implements a cryptographic protocol involving components of quantum mechanics. It enables two parties to produce a shared random secret key known only to them, which can then be ...

(QKD) and related classical information theory problems such as secret-key distillation, reconciliation and privacy amplification. His thesis was later expanded into a book, "Quantum Cryptography and Secret-Key Distillation" published by

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on 29 June 2006. Along with

Joan Daemen Joan Daemen (; born 1965) is a Belgian cryptographer who co-designed with Vincent Rijmen the Rijndael cipher, which was selected as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in 2001. More recently, he co-designed the Keccak cryptographic hash, whi ...

and Michaël Peeters he designed the

NOEKEON NOEKEON is a family of two block ciphers designed by Joan Daemen, Michaël Peeters, Gilles Van Assche and Vincent Rijmen and submitted to the NESSIE project in September 2000. The two ciphers are "direct mode" NOEKEON, to be used for maximum e ...

family of

block cipher In cryptography, a block cipher is a deterministic algorithm operating on fixed-length groups of bits, called ''blocks''. Block ciphers are specified cryptographic primitive, elementary components in the design of many cryptographic protocols and ...

s which were submitted to the

NESSIE NESSIE (New European Schemes for Signatures, Integrity and Encryption) was a European research project funded from 2000 to 2003 to identify secure cryptographic primitives. The project was comparable to the NIST AES process and the Japanese Gov ...

project in September 2000. In 2006

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joined the team and together they designed the

RadioGatún RadioGatún is a cryptographic hash primitive created by Guido Bertoni, Joan Daemen, Michaël Peeters, and Gilles Van Assche. It was first publicly presented at the NIST Second Cryptographic Hash Workshop, held in Santa Barbara, California, on ...

hash function and stream cipher, introduced the concept of

cryptographic 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 adve ...

sponge function In cryptography, a sponge function or sponge construction is any of a class of algorithms with finite state (computer science), internal state that take an input bit stream of any length and produce an output bit stream of any desired length. Spon ...

s and designed the

which later became the

standard. He currently works in the Secure Microcontrollers Division of

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and teaches

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 ...

at the École Supérieure d'Informatique as well as the Université Libre de Bruxelles in

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