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Bart Preneel Joins Cloakware Technical Advisory Council

Cloakware, an innovative creator of application security products for software protection, announced the appointment of Professor Bart Preneel to its Technical Advisory Council. Preneel is a professor in the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography research group at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. World renowned as a cryptographer and security consultant, Preneel's research focuses on cryptographic algorithms and protocols as well as their applications to computer and network security. He is also the recipient of the 2003 European Information Security Award in the category of Academic Research.

"Given my research interests, I am very pleased to have the opportunity to work with Cloakware and my other colleagues on the council," said Preneel. "Cryptography has largely solved the problem of maintaining confidentiality of data in transit and storage. I am very interested in Cloakware's advanced research into software protection technologies that protect data after it has been decrypted and in use by an application."

Cloakware's Technical Advisory Council was created as a forum in which both academic and industry thought leaders participate in defining the foundational technology that forms the basis for Cloakware's future products.

"We are very honoured to have Preneel join our Technical Advisory Council," said Alec Main, Cloakware's chief technology officer and chair of the council. "Among his many contributions to research, Preneel's research group is well known for its work in the specification and evaluation of the Advanced Encryption Algorithm. As we work to develop advanced security technology that leverages industry standard cryptography and Cloakware's code transformation technology, Preneel's experience will be invaluable."

Preneel joins existing Council members Paul Van Oorschot, professor in computer science at Carleton University and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Network and Software Security, and Brian O'Higgins, chief technology officer of Entrust Technologies.