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He began his Doctor of Philosophy studies in 1985 at the same university, and was for a period a guest researcher at CWI in Amsterdam in 1987.
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Ivan Damgard
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In 1983, he obtained a Master"s degree in mathematics (with minors in music and computer science) at Aarhus University. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in May, 1988, with the thesis Ubetinget beskyttelse i kryptografiske protokoller (Unconditional protection in cryptographic protocols) and has been employed at Aarhus University ever since. Damgård was made full professor in 2005.
He is known among other things for the Merkle–Damgård construction used in most modern cryptographic hash functions such as SHA-1 and MD5.
He discovered the structure independently of Ralph Merkle and published it in 1989. Ivan Damgård is also one of the founders of the Cryptomathic company.
In 2010, he was selected as IACR Fellow.
