Joan Daemen (born 1965) is a Belgian cryptographer and one of the designers of Rijndael, the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), together with Vincent Rijmen. He has also designed or co-designed the MMB, Square, SHARK, NOEKEON and 3-Way block ciphers.
Daemen was born in Achel, in the Limburg region of Belgium. In 1988, he graduated in electro-mechanical civil engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He subsequently joined the COSIC research group, and has worked on the design and cryptanalysis of block ciphers, stream ciphers and cryptographic hash functions. Daemen completed his PhD in 1995, at which point he worked at Janssenn Pharmaceutics for a year in Beerse. He subsequently worked at Bacob , Banksys and then Proton World .
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