Lars Knudsen

Lars Ramkilde Knudsen (born February 21 , 1962 ) is a Danish researcher in Cryptography , particularly interested in the design and Analysis of Block Cipher s, Hash Functions and Message Authentication Code s (MACs).

After some early work in Banking , Knudsen enrolled at Aarhus University in 1984 studying Mathematics and Computer Science , gaining a MSc in 1992 and a PhD in 1994 . From 1997 - 2001 , he worked at the University Of Bergen , Norway . Currently , Knudsen is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Technical University Of Denmark .

Knudsen has published analyses of a wide variety of cryptographic designs, including the , DFC , IDEA , Ice , LOKI , MISTY , RC2 , RC5 , RC6 , SC2000 , Skipjack , Square and SAFER — it has been hinted that the "SK" in the "SAFER-SK" variant means ''Stop Knudsen'' after he had found weaknesses in a previous version. Knudsen has also designed ciphers, including the AES Candidate s DEAL and Serpent (the latter in conjunction with Ross Anderson and Eli Biham ).

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