Interests: Privacy, security, applied cryptography, distributed trust, blockchain, smart contracts
Publications
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Runner-up for Cybersecurity Innovation Europe Award
Smals Research is at the cradle of eHealth’s blind pseudonymization service. This innovation came in a very creditable second place this year at the prestigious Best Cybersecurity Innovation Europe awards, presented by Cybersec Europe in the presence of Prince Laurent. The jury praised the service for its innovative, practical and Belgian character, the simplicity of the solution and the potential…
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Tech talk Cybersec Europe – Cryptographic agility in practice
Due to the threat of powerful quantum computers in the not so distant future, we need to replace our cryptography. We do this migration from old to new cryptography once, and then we are done, right? Not exactly. We have multiple cryptographic migrations behind us and, most likely, multiple in front of us. A more
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Keynote Cybersec Europe: Resilience against quantum (and other) threats with crypto agility
Slides of keynote given at Cybersec Europe 2025. Public key cryptography is essential in our society. We use it constantly, for instance to secure digital communication. Powerful quantum computers could break this in the long term and are already a risk today. Someone who intercepts secure communication today may indeed be able to decipher it
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Towards automatic compliance with cryptographic recommendations
Expressing cryptographic recommendations as code increases automation, insight, and cryptographic maturity.
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Advanced De-identification & Linkage of Personal Data originating from Multiple Sources for Secondary Use
This presentation discusses two concepts developed by Smals Research to de-identify and link personal data originating from multiple sources, in order to make them available for secondary use such as for scientific research. Presentation
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Vers une conformité automatique des recommandations cryptographiques
L’expression de recommandations cryptographiques sous forme de code augmente l’automatisation, la compréhension et la maturité cryptographique.
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Naar automatische naleving van cryptografische aanbevelingen
Cryptografische aanbevelingen uitdrukken als code verhoogt automatisering, inzicht en cryptografische maturiteit.
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Towards Cryptographic Agility in the Public Sector
This talks was part of the Webinar “Safeguarding Communications and Data in the Age of Quantum Computing”. This event, co-hosted by Beltug, EuroCC, Quantum Circle and the Flemish Supercomputer Centrum (VSC), brought together experts and professionals to deliver insights on the path to safe communications and data in the quantum computing age. This webinar explores
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Comment préparer la migration vers la cryptographie post-quantique ?
La cryptographie est indispensable dans notre société actuelle. Les algorithmes cryptographiques qui étaient autrefois considérés comme extrêmement sûrs sont aujourd’hui totalement inadaptés. Il faudra un jour, par exemple avec l’avènement probable de puissants ordinateurs quantiques, s’affranchir progressivement ou très rapidement des méthodes cryptographiques qui sont la norme aujourd’hui. Cet article examine les préparatifs que nous pouvons faire à cette fin.
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Privacy in Practice with Smart Pseudonymization – Lessons from the Belgian Public Sector
Talk given in 2024 at Devoxx Belgium, the biggest vendor-independent Java conference in the world which takes place in one of the biggest European cinema complexes, the Kinepolis, located in Antwerp, Belgium. Masks are being used for thousands of years, all across the physical world, for reasons such as physical protection, rituals and hiding the
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