Lawrence Peter "Lawrie" Brown is a cryptographer and

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researcher, currently a (retired and now visiting) Senior Lecturer with UNSW Canberra at the

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. His notable work includes the design of the block ciphers LOKI and the AES candidate

LOKI97 In cryptography, LOKI97 is a block cipher which was a candidate in the Advanced Encryption Standard competition. It is a member of the LOKI family of ciphers, with earlier instances being LOKI89 and LOKI91. LOKI97 was designed by Lawrie Brown, ...

. He received his

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in mathematics from the

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in 1991 under the supervision of

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, with a dissertation on the design of LOKI and the cryptanalysis of the

Data Encryption Standard The Data Encryption Standard (DES ) is a symmetric-key algorithm for the encryption of digital data. Although its short key length of 56 bits makes it too insecure for modern applications, it has been highly influential in the advancement of cry ...

. Subsequently, his research changed focus to the Safe Erlang mobile code system, to aspects of trust issues in eCommerce with some of his Ph.D. students, and with the use of Proxy Certificates for Client Authentication.

Publications

* ''Computer Security: Principles and Practice'', 3/e, Pearson Education, 2015

Personal interests

According to his personal homepage, Brown's social activities include dancing a number of different styles. He has also composed some of his own dances. He enjoys reading science fiction and is an amateur radio enthusiast. Brown is a practicing

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References

External links

Lawrie Brown's page at UNSW Canberra (ADFA)
Living people Modern cryptographers Australian computer scientists Computer security academics University of New South Wales alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{crypto-bio-stub