Alfred Menezes | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alfred J. Menezes 1965 (age 60–61)[1] |
| Occupations | Mathematician Cryptographer |
| Known for | MOV attack onECC MQV key agreement, co-founder ofCentre 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 oncryptography, including theHandbook of Applied Cryptography, and is a professor of mathematics at theUniversity of Waterloo inCanada.[2]
Alfred Menezes' family is fromGoa, a state in western India, but he was born inTanzania and grew up inKuwait except for a few years at a boarding school in India. His undergraduate and post-graduate degrees are from theUniversity of Waterloo.[3]: 302
After five years teaching atAuburn 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 theCentre for Applied Cryptographic Research, and has served as its Managing Director.[4] Menezes' main areas of research areElliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC),provable security, and related areas. He is a Canadian citizen.
Menezes' bookElliptic Curve Public Key Cryptosystems, published in 1993,[5] was the first book devoted entirely to ECC. He co-authored the widely-used reference bookHandbook of Applied Cryptography.[6]
In 2001 Menezes won theHall Medal of theInstitute 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 withNeal Koblitz, authored a series ofAnother Look papers that describe errors or weaknesses in existing security proofs, the first beingAnother look at HMAC (2013). The two now maintain a website dedicated to this type of papers.[9]
