Keynote speakers: The future of information security

Bart Preneel is in the research group COSIC of the Electrical Engineering Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. His main research area is information security focusing on cryptographic algorithms and protocols as well as their applications to computer and network security and mobile communications. His favorite research topics are hash functions, MAC algorithms, stream ciphers and block ciphers. He is teaching cryptology, network security, coding theory, and discrete applied algebra at the K.U. Leuven. He has been visiting professor at the Technical University Denmark, the Ruhr Universitaet Bochum (Germany), the Graz University of Technology (Austria), the University of Bergen (Norway), and the Universiteit Gent (Belgium). In ′93-′94 he was a research fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. He had contributed to the growth of COSIC, a research group in cryptology and its applications.