Stefan Brands
Adjunct Professor, McGill University, School of Computer Science
Stream 3 - technologies that identify, anonymize and authenticate
e-mail: brands(at)cs.mcgill.ca, brands(at)credentica.com
Biography
Dr.
Stefan Brands is the founder and president of Credentica, a
Montreal-based startup that delivers innovative identity and access
management solutions. He holds a Ph.D. in cryptography from Technical
University of Eindhoven and a M.Sc. in mathematics from University of
Utrecht. Stefan is an Adjunct Professor in modern cryptology at
McGill's School of Computer Science. In this capacity he co-supervises
several M.Sc. and PhD students who are conducting cryptographic
research in the area of digital identity and privacy. Stefan is a
principal member of "On The Identity Trail" as well as of ADAPID, a
Belgian R&D consortium that is designing a next-generation ID
chipcard. Prior to joining Credentica, Stefan was a senior
cryptographer at two pioneering privacy technology companies:
Zero-Knowledge Systems (anonymous data transport) and Digicash
(electronic cash). Stefan served in 2004 and 2005 on the external
advisory committee of the Federal Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and
is the author of a book on multi-party secure electronic
authentication, published by The MIT Press with a foreword by prof. Ron
Rivest. (Available for download from www.credentica.com/the_mit_pressbook.php.)
In the early nineties, Stefan designed the core e-cash protocols of a
chipcard system that was implemented and piloted by two European
consortiums that included Gemplus, Siemens, and several European banks.
Stefan maintains a personal blog on identity management and privacy at www.idcorner.org.
Read our interview with Stefan Brands
Research
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On Canadian developments in Electronic Health Record Management and the need for cross-disciplinary action
On E-Government Authentication and Privacy