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 university, 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 se ...

in Ottawa, Ontario, where he held a

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in authentication and computer security over the period 2002-2023. He is a

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of the

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

Scott Vanstone Scott A. Vanstone (September 14, 1947 – March 2, 2014) 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 founde ...

. He is also the author of ''Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels from Malware to Bitcoin'' (). Van Oorschot was awarded the 2000

J.W. Graham Medal The J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation is an award given annually by the University of Waterloo and the University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics to "recognize the leadership and many innovative contributions made to the University ...

in Computing Innovation. He also helped organize the first

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(SAC) workshop in 1994. Van Oorschot received his Ph.D. 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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