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cokernel_hacker on Oct 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Keccak wins the SHA-3 competition

They are all cryptographers and at least three of them have deep academic backgrounds...

Guido Bertoni: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/b/...

Joan Daemen: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/d/...

Gilles Van Assche: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/a/...

Joan Daemen has a PhD, his thesis was "Cipher and Hash Function Design. Strategies based on linear and differential cryptanalysis"

Gilles Van Assche was a PhD student at the University of Brussels studying "classical and quantum information theory" (http://gva.noekeon.org/)

zhuzhuor on Oct 3, 2012 [–]

Just to add another fact here: Daemen is also one of the two co-authors of AES

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