Stefan Brands designed the core cryptographic protocols of

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technology. Earlier versions of these protocols were implemented by

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, Zero-Knowledge Systems, Credentica, and a consortium of European banks and IT organizations. For technical details, see Brands' book "Rethinking Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Certificates," published by the MIT Press.Rethinking Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Certificates: Building In Privacy
MIT Press 2000, Brands has been a principal architect at Microsoft, an adjunct professor at McGill University, and an advisor to Canada's data protection commissioner and the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brands, Stefan Living people Microsoft employees Dutch cryptographers Dutch mathematicians Utrecht University alumni McGill University faculty Eindhoven University of Technology alumni Year of birth missing (living people)