Alfred Menezes
Mathematician
Cryptographer
MOV attack on ECC
MQV key agreement, co-founder of Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research
University of Waterloo (B.Math, 1987; M.Math, 1989; Ph.D., 1992)
Academic career[edit]
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]