Bart Preneel (born 15 October 1963 in Leuven, Belgium[1][better source needed]) is a Belgian cryptographer and cryptanalyst.
[4] In 1987, Preneel received a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven.
[4] In 1993, Preneel received a PhD in Applied Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
[5][4] His dissertation in computer science, entitled Analysis and Design of Cryptographic Hash Functions, was advised by Joos (Joseph) P. L. Vandewalle and René J. M.
[5] Along with Shoji Miyaguchi, he independently invented the Miyaguchi–Preneel scheme,[6][7][8] a structure that converts a block cipher into a hash function, used eg.