Vincent Rijmen

Vincent Rijmen , born the October 16th 1970 with Leuwen, is a Belgian cryptologist Flemish. Originator with Joan Daemen of Rijndael of a symmetrical algorithm of coding per block which gained the Concours AES, standard intended to replace , the official standard of the US government for its not classified documents and largely adopted by industry.

This standard had raised many contreverses, because the professional environment of the Cryptographie suspected that NSA had an entry concealed in this system and could thus take note of all that was quantified. This is why NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) sponsored a cryptographic competition in January 1997 where researchers of the whole world were invited to submit proposals for a new standard which would be called AES (Advanced Encryption Standard).

In November 2000, the proposal of Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen was retained, it is the standard " Rijndael " (compound with the names of the two authors, to pronounce " Rayndal"). It became a standard of the US government, published under the name of Federal Information Processing Standard , FIPS. Being given the opening of the competition, technical properties of Rijndael and owing to the fact that the gaining team consisted of two young Belgian cryptographes (not very likely to have spared an entry concealed to take pleasure in the NSA), one can expect that the Rijndael algorithm becomes the standard of cryptography dominating during at least a decade.

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