COSIC


The Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography research group, commonly called COSIC, is a research group at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, which is headed by Bart Preneel.

Research

Research and expertise in digital security:
Applications:
One of the well-known successes is the selection of Rijndael as the Advanced Encryption Standard. Currently AES is used by millions of users in more than thousand products, such as the protection of US government information.

Research projects

COSIC has participated in over 50 European research projects.

IMEC

COSIC is part of the Smart Applications and Innovation Services of .