- Alfred Menezes
- Calgary
- Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research
- Certicom
- Certicom Corp.
- Communication, Networks and Security
- Cryptography
- Elliptic curve cryptography
- Law
- Mathematics
- Microsoft Canada
- Privacy
- Scott Vanstone
- Technology
- Toronto
- University of Calgary
- University of Waterloo
- University of Waterloo
- communications
The team organized eight successful workshops in Calgary and Toronto to further research and networking among privacy and security experts, and five international workshops on elliptic curve cryptography.
Dr. Alfred Menezes , University of Waterloo & Dr. Hugh Williams , University of Calgary
Privacy is a fundamental right of people living in a law-abiding society and cryptography is a fundamental tool for privacy-enhancing technologies. Due to ongoing and inevitable threats from criminals and terrorists, it is important that mechanisms for providing privacy not interfere with the legitimate duties of law enforcement agencies. Therefore, the two main goals of this project were to foster the research of privacy-enhancing policy and technologies and to study fundamental mathematical tools used in cryptography. In the five years since the project inception, the team organized eight successful workshops in Calgary and Toronto to further research and networking among privacy and security experts, and five international workshops on elliptic curve cryptography. Efficient methods were also developed for designing, analyzing, and implementing cryptographic protocols based on sophisticated mathematical methods. This project ended in 2008.