The Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography research group, commonly called COSIC, is a research group at the Department of Electrical Engineering of KU Leuven, which is headed by Bart Preneel.

Research

Research and expertise in digital security:

  • Security architectures for information and communication systems
  • Cryptographic algorithms and protocols Symmetric key Public key Post-quantum
  • Security for embedded systems
  • Privacy-preserving systems

Applications:

  • Cloud
  • Automotive
  • Privacy
  • Data Protection
  • Trusted Systems
  • E-payments
  • E-documents
  • ...

AES

One of the well-known successes is the selection of Rijndael as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which has millions of users. There are over a thousand applications, such as the protection of US government information.

Research projects

COSIC has participated in over 50 European research projects.

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