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Robert joined Certicom in 1997. His responsibilities at Certicom have included research and IP generation as well as management of a development team.

Robert received a B.Sc.(Hon.) in Mathematics from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1993, a M.Math. from the University of Waterloo in 1994, and a Ph.D.(Mathematics) in 1997, also from the University of Waterloo. His graduate training was in Combinatorics and Optimization.

Selected Publications and Presentations:

  • “Provably secure implicit certificate schemes'', D.R.L Brown, R.P. Gallant, and S.A. Vanstone, Financial Cryptography 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2339, 156-165.
  • “Faster point multiplication on elliptic curves with efficient endomorphisms'', R.P. Gallant, R.J. Lambert and S.A. Vanstone, Crypto'2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2139, 190-200.
  • “Improving the parallelized Pollard lambda search on anomalous binary curves'', R.P. Gallant, R.J Lambert and S.A. Vanstone, Mathematics of Computation, 69 (2000) 1699-1705.