Paul C. van Oorschot is a cryptographer and

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researcher, currently a professor of

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Carleton University Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning World ...

in Ottawa, Ontario, where he holds the

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in Authentication and Computer Security. He is a

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of the

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(FRSC). He is best known as co-author of the ''Handbook of Applied Cryptography'' (), together with

Alfred Menezes 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.

and

Scott Vanstone Scott A. Vanstone was a mathematician and cryptographer in the University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics. He was a member of the school's Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research, and was also a founder of the cybersecurity company Certico ...

. Van Oorschot was awarded the 2000 J.W. Graham Medal in Computing Innovation. He also helped organize the first

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(SAC) workshop in 1994. Van Oorschot received his

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in 1988 from the

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. He was recognized (2016) as a

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for "contributions to applied cryptography, authentication and computer security." He is also a Fellow of the IEEE (2019). His most recent book is ''Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels from Malware to Bitcoin'' (2nd edition, 2021; Springer International).

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Paul van Oorschot's page at Carleton University

Handbook of Applied Cryptography home

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