Daemen and Rijmen Receive BBVA Award For AES
In 2026, the BBVA Foundation awarded its 18th Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies to Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen for designing Rijndael, which became the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). The committee highlighted their open-source decision and AES's 2001 U.S. standardization and later international adoption, noting it now secures data on billions of connected devices worldwide.
Scoring Rationale
Recognizes industry-wide cryptography impact and official sourcing; limited novelty since AES is an established, two-decade-old standard.
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