Vincent Rijmen has been awarded (together with Joan Damen) the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Bilbao.
“Rijmen and Daemen (KU Leuven/University of Bergen and Radboud University) were honored for developing the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which secures global digital infrastructure. The award recognized AES for its speed, security, and open-source nature.”
“Rijmen and Daemen’s work illustrates the impact of fundamental research on practical technologies that affect billions of people.”