Alfred Menezes Explained

Alfred Menezes
Birth Name:	Alfred J. Menezes
Birth Date:	^[1]
Birth Place:	Tanzania
Known For:	MOV attack on ECC MQV key agreement, co-founder of Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research
Occupation:	Mathematician Cryptographer
Workplaces:	University of Waterloo
Doctoral Advisor:	Scott Vanstone
Alma Mater:	University of Waterloo (B.Math, 1987; M.Math, 1989; Ph.D., 1992)

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.^[2]

Education

Alfred Menezes' family is from Goa, a state in western India, but he was born in Tanzania and grew up in Kuwait except for a few years at a boarding school in India. His undergraduate and post-graduate degrees are from the University of Waterloo.^[3]

Academic career

After five years teaching at Auburn University, in 1997 he returned to the University of Waterloo, where he is now a professor of mathematics in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization. He co-founded and is a member of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research, and has served as its Managing Director.^[4] Menezes' main areas of research are Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), provable security, and related areas. He is a Canadian citizen.

Menezes' book Elliptic Curve Public Key Cryptosystems, published in 1993,^[5] was the first book devoted entirely to ECC. He co-authored the widely-used reference book Handbook of Applied Cryptography.^[6]

In 2001 Menezes won the Hall Medal of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.

Menezes has been a conference organizer or program committee member for approximately fifty conferences on Cryptography.^[7] He was Program Chair for Crypto 2007, and in 2012 he was an invited speaker at Eurocrypt.^[8]

Menezes, in co-operation with Neal Koblitz, authored a series of Another Look papers that describe errors or weaknesses in existing security proofs, the first being Another look at HMAC (2013). The two now maintain a website dedicated to this type of papers.^[9]

Books

• Book: Alfred J. Menezes . Paul C. van Oorschot . Scott A. Vanstone . Scott Vanstone . amp . 1996 . Handbook of Applied Cryptography . . 0-8493-8523-7 .
• Book: Hankerson . D. . Vanstone . S. . Scott Vanstone . Menezes . A. . Alfred Menezes . 10.1007/b97644 . Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography . Springer Professional Computing . Springer. New York. 2004 . 0-387-95273-X . 720546 .
• Book: Alfred J. Menezes . 1993 . Elliptic Curve Public Key Cryptosystems . . 0-7923-9368-6 .
• Book: Alfred Menezes . Ian Blake . Shuhong Gao . Ron Mullin . Scott Vanstone . Scott Vanstone . Tomik Yaghoobian . amp . 1993 . Applications of Finite Fields . . 0-7923-9282-5 .

Selected publications

• "Computing discrete logarithms in cryptographically-interesting characteristic-three finite fields" (with G. Adj, I. Canales-Martinez, N. Cruz-Cortes, T. Oliveira, L. Rivera-Zamarripa and F. Rodriguez-Henriquez), Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2016/914. https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/914
• "Another look at tightness II: Practical issues in cryptography" (with S. Chatterjee, N. Koblitz and P. Sarkar), Mycrypt 2016, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10311 (2017), 21–55.
• "Another look at HMAC" (with N. Koblitz), Journal of Mathematical Cryptology, 7 (2013), 225–251.
• "Elliptic curve cryptography: The serpentine course of a paradigm shift" (with A. H. Koblitz and N. Koblitz), Journal of Number Theory, 131 (2011), 781–814.
• "Another look at 'provable security (with N. Koblitz), Journal of Cryptology, 20 (2007), 3–37.
• "An efficient protocol for authenticated key agreement" (with L. Law, M. Qu, J. Solinas and S. Vanstone), Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 28 (2003), 119–134.
• "Solving elliptic curve discrete logarithm problems using Weil descent" (with M. Jacobson and A. Stein), Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society, 16 (2001), 231–260.
• "The elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA)" (with D. Johnson and S. Vanstone), International Journal on Information Security, 1 (2001), 36–63.
• "Analysis of the Weil descent attack of Gaudry, Hess and Smart" (with M. Qu), Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2020 (2001), 308–318.
• "Unknown key-share attacks on the station-to-station (STS) protocol" (with S. Blake-Wilson), Proceedings of PKC '99, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1560 (1999), 154–170.
• "Reducing elliptic curve logarithms to logarithms in a finite field" (with T. Okamoto and S. Vanstone), IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 39 (1993), 1639–1646.

See also

• List of University of Waterloo people

External links

• DBLP Publication list

Notes and References

1. Cf. Library of Congress catalog data
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20131010085630/http://www.certicom.com/index.php/dr-alfred-menezes "Alfred Menezes: Mini-biography"
3. Book: Koblitz, Neal. Random Curves: Journeys of a Mathematician. Springer-Verlag. 2008. 9783540740773.
4. Web site: Alfred Menezes. 11 April 2018.
5. Book: Menezes, Alfred J.. Elliptic Curve Public Key Cryptosystems. Kluwer Academic Publisher. 1993. 9780792393689.
6. Book: Menezes. Alfred J.. van Oorschot. Paul. Vanstone. Scott A.. 1996. Handbook of Applied Cryptography. CRC Press. 0-8493-8523-7.
7. Web site: Professional Activities. 11 April 2018.
8. Web site: Another look at provable security. . 4 July 2012 . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/l56ORg5xXkk . 2021-12-22 . live. 11 April 2018.
9. Web site: Neal . Koblitz . Alfred . Menezes . Another Look at Provable Security . www.math.uwaterloo.ca.