Douglas Stebila

About me

I'm an Assistant Professor in cryptography at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. My research focuses on improving the security of Internet cryptography protocols such as SSL/TLS and SSH.

Research

My research interests include:

Applied cryptography: provable security; key exchange; digital signatures; public key encryption; client puzzles / proofs of work; elliptic curve cryptography; quantum cryptography
Internet security: network security protocols (SSL/TLS, SSH, Tor); privacy; PKI; authentication; usability

My full list of publications and presentations are available online. My most recent papers are:

From identification to signatures, tightly: A framework and generic transforms

M. Bellare, B. Poettering, D. Stebila. In ASIACRYPT 2016.

Frodo: Take off the ring! Practical, quantum-secure key exchange from LWE

J. Bos, C. Costello, L. Ducas, I. Mironov, M. Naehrig, V. Nikolaenko, A. Raghunathan, D. Stebila. In ACM CCS 2016.

Secure logging schemes and Certificate Transparency

B. Dowling, F. Günther, U. Herath, D. Stebila. In ESORICS 2016.

Authenticated network time synchronization

B. Dowling, D. Stebila, G. Zaverucha. In USENIX Security 2016.

Pictures

I'm fortunate to be able to travel a lot. I take lots of pictures on my trips. The best of my photos are posted in my galleries. My most recent galleres are: