COSIC


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

Research

Research and expertise in digital security:
Applications:

AES

One of the well-known successes is the selection of Rijndael as the Advanced Encryption Standard, which has millions of users. There are over a thousand applications, 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 IMEC.