Cryptographer
Scott Vanstone
Canadian cryptographer (1947 -2014)
- Life
- 1947 – 2014
- Born
- September 14, 1947
- Died
- March 2, 2014
- Nationality
- Canada
Scott A. Vanstone 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 founder of the cybersecurity company Certicom. He received his PhD in 1974 at the University of Waterloo, and for about a decade worked principally in combinatorial design theory, finite geometry, and finite fields. In the 1980s he started working in cryptography. An early result
