Stefan Brands

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Stefan Brands
Scientific career
FieldsCryptography
InstitutionsCWI
University of Utrecht
McGill University School of Computer Science
Doctoral advisorsAdi Shamir
Henk van Tilborg

Stefan Brands is the designer of the core cryptographic protocols of Microsoft's U-Prove technology.

Business career

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Following his academic research on these protocols during the nineties, they were implemented and marketed under the U-Prove name by Credentica until Microsoft acquired the technology.[1][2]

Prior to Credentica, earlier versions of Brands' protocols were implemented by DigiCash,[3] by Zero-Knowledge Systems,[4] and by two consortiums made up of academic research groups, European banks, and large IT organizations.[5][6]

Early career and affiliations

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Brands has worked at DigiCash,[7] at Zero-Knowledge Systems, and at Microsoft Corp. He has also served as an adjunct professor at McGill University, and as an advisor to Canada's data protection commissioner and to the Electronic Privacy Information Center.[2]

References

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  3. ^ How DigiCash Blew Everything, NEXT magazine, January 1999.
  4. ^ Wall Street Journal: Zero-Knowledge Is Hoping to Cash In On Move to Anonymous Funds for Web. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved on 3 October 2015.
  5. ^ About the CAFE project, April 1996.
  6. ^ OPERA - Open Payments European Research Association, July 1997.
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