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:
 * Security architectures for information and communication systems
 * Cryptographic algorithms and protocols
 * Symmetric key
 * Public key
 * Post-quantum
 * Security for embedded systems
 * Privacy-preserving systems
 * Cloud
 * Automotive
 * Privacy
 * Data Protection
 * Trusted Systems
 * E-payments
 * E-documents

AES
One of the well-known successes is the selection of Rijndael as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). 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 imec.