Dr Douglas Stebila

I am currently an Assistant Professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.  For up-to-date information, please see my research website at http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~stebilad/  My research focuses on the cryptographic security of Internet protocols.
From 2010-2016, I was a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology, jointly appointed between the school of Electrical Enginnering and Computer Science and the school of Mathematical Sciences.  
From 2009-2010, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Information Security Institute at the Queensland University of Technology, addressing cryptographic aspects of denial of service resistance.
From 2004-2009, I was a PhD student affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. I worked with Prof. Michele Mosca on a variety of problems related to quantum cryptography, including an analysis of the cryptographic case for quantum key distribution and the development of quantum coins, a new form of digital cash that makes use of the no-cloning properties of quantum money.
As a PhD student, I was also affiliated with the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research at the University of Waterloo. My research included analyzing side-channel attacks on elliptic curve cryptography, password authenticated key exchange protocols, and denial of service resistance of key exchange protocols.
Between 2001 and 2005, I worked several times as an intern at Sun Microsystems Laboratories in the Next Generation Cryptography project, working with Sheueling Chang Shantz, Vipul Gupta, Hans Eberle, and Nils Gura. Our research focused on next generation cryptographic technologies. I worked on software implementations of elliptic curve cryptography and the ECDH and ECDSA algorithms, and integrated them into the widely used OpenSSL and NSS toolkits. Our work resulted in several publications and a technical standard.