Alfred Menezes | |
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Born | Alfred J. Menezes 1965 (age 59–60) [1] |
Occupation(s) | Mathematician Cryptographer |
Known for | MOV attack on ECC MQV key agreement, co-founder of Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Waterloo (B.Math, 1987; M.Math, 1989; Ph.D., 1992) |
Doctoral advisor | Scott Vanstone |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Waterloo |
Alfred Menezes is co-author of several books on cryptography,including the Handbook of Applied Cryptography,and is a professor of mathematics at the University of Waterloo in Canada. [2]
Alfred Menezes' family is from Goa,a state in western India,but he was born in Tanzania and grew up in Kuwait except for a few years at a boarding school in India. His undergraduate and post-graduate degrees are from the University of Waterloo. [3] : 302
After five years teaching at Auburn University,in 1997 he returned to the University of Waterloo,where he is now a professor of mathematics in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization. He co-founded and is a member of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research,and has served as its Managing Director. [4] Menezes' main areas of research are Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC),provable security,and related areas. He is a Canadian citizen.
Menezes' book Elliptic Curve Public Key Cryptosystems,published in 1993, [5] was the first book devoted entirely to ECC. He co-authored the widely-used reference book Handbook of Applied Cryptography. [6]
In 2001 Menezes won the Hall Medal of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.
Menezes has been a conference organizer or program committee member for approximately fifty conferences on Cryptography. [7] He was Program Chair for Crypto 2007,and in 2012 he was an invited speaker at Eurocrypt. [8]
Menezes,in co-operation with Neal Koblitz,authored a series of Another Look papers that describe errors or weaknesses in existing security proofs,the first being Another look at HMAC (2013). The two now maintain a website dedicated to this type of papers. [9]