Stafford Tavares | |
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| Occupation | Cryptographer |
| Known for | Studying design and analysis of block ciphers |
Stafford Emanuel Tavares is a Canadian cryptographer, professor emeritus at Queen's University. His notable work includes the design (with Carlisle Adams) of the block ciphers CAST-128 and CAST-256. He also helped organize the first Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) workshop in 1994. Since 2003, SAC has included an invited lecture in his honor, the Stafford Tavares Lecture.[1][2]
Tavares received his Ph.D. in 1968 from McGill University.[3]
In 2018 he was elected as a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, "for significant contributions to the design and analysis of block ciphers, for founding the SAC conference, and for service to the IACR".[4]
References
- ↑ Stinson, Doug. "Workshops on Selected Areas in Cryptography". Retrieved 30 May 2007.
- ↑ "Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC)". sacworkshop.org. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
- ↑ Stafford Tavares at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Stafford Tavares, 2018 IACR Fellow". International Association for Cryptologic Research. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
External links
- Stafford Tavares publications indexed by Google Scholar
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