World-leaders in Cryptography: Paul van Oorschot

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Paul van Oorschot, a leading expert in cryptography and computer security.

Paul is a cryptographer and computer security researcher, and is currently a professor of computer science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. He previously held a Canada Research Chair in authentication and computer security and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC). Along with Alfred Menezes and Scott Vanstone, Paul was a co-author of the Handbook of Applied Cryptography, and the author of Computer Security and the Internet. In 2000, he was awarded The J.W. Graham Medal in Computing Innovation, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2016 for his "contributions to applied cryptography, authentication and computer security.

People in this episode

Host: Professor Bill Buchanan OBE

Guest: Paul van Oorschot

Topics covered

• cryptography
• computer security
• authentication
• research
• technology

Keywords

• cryptography
• computer security
• authentication
• research
• Canada

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Carleton University, Royal Society of Canada, Association for Computing Machinery

Books & works: Handbook of Applied Cryptography, Computer Security and the Internet

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