Cryptographer
Stafford Tavares
Canadian cryptographer
- Life
- 1940 – present
- Born
- May 11, 1940
- Nationality
- Canada
Stafford Emanuel Tavares is a Canadian cryptographer, professor emeritus at Queen's University. His notable work includes the design 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.
