Founder & EVP Strategic Technology
One of the founders of Certicom, Dr. Vanstone is also a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Vanstone devotes much of his research to the efficient implementation of the elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) for the provision of information security services in handheld computers, smart cards, wireless devices, and integrated circuits. He is the EVP Strategic Technology and oversees all research, which has generated over 350 patents for the company. He also sits on the Board of Directors for Certicom. Dr. Vanstone has published more than 250 research papers and several books on topics such as cryptography, coding theory, finite fields, finite geometry, and combinatorial designs. He has won numerous awards, including . He is a co-author of the Handbook of Applied Cryptography and the upcoming Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Dr. Vanstone also holds the NSERC/Pitney Bowes Senior Chair of Cryptography at the University of Waterloo, where he is also Executive Director of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research. In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Sciences. Selected Publications and Presentations: - Handbook of Applied Cryptography, Alfred Menezes, Paul van Oorschot and Scott Vanstone CRC Press, 1996.
- Applications of Finite Fields, Alfred Menezes, Ian Blake, Shuhong Gao, Ron Mullin, Scott Vanstone, and Tomik Yaghoobian, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993
- An Introduction to Error Correcting Codes with Applications, Scott Vanstone and Paul van Oorschot, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989
- L. Law, A. Menezes, M. Qu, J. Solinas and S. Vanstone, "An efficient protocol for authenticated key agreement", Technical report CORR 98-05, Department of C&O, University of Waterloo, March 1998. http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca
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