Lecture: Cryptology – The Road Ahaed
Today I attended at a lecture of Bart Preneel at university. Bart Preneel was talking about Cryptology and it was a quite interesting lecture. Bart Preneel is a professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Together with Prof. J. Vandewalle, he is heading the research group COSIC at the K.U.Leuven, which currently has 35 members.
He was talking about hash functions, MACs, block ciphers and so on. I’ve heard some terms like as RIPEMD-160 and MDx-MAC for the first time. I should take a deeper look into the book ‘Abenteuer Kryptologie’ of Reinhard Wobst [ISBN://3827318157] which want’s to be read when I have time to do so 8-).
Check out the Homepage of Bart Preneel for more details.