October 13, 2000

U.S. Government Embraces New Encryption Technique Developed in Belgium

By FLORENCE OLSEN

The Commerce Department has selected an encryption algorithm developed by two Belgian cryptographers -- one of whom is in academe -- to become the new federal standard for protecting sensitive information.

The inventors of the algorithm are Vincent Rijmen, a postdoctoral researcher in electrical engineering at the Catholic University of Louvain, a research institution in Belgium; and Joan Daemen, a cryptographer at Proton World International, a systems-integration company in Brussels

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