Red Pine on Wilderness Trail

Douglas Stebila

Research

My research interests include:

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

Publications

My full list of publications is available here. My most recent papers are:

Prototyping post-quantum and hybrid key exchange and authentication in TLS and SSH

E. Crockett, C. Paquin, D. Stebila. In NIST PQC Standardization 2019.

Design issues for hybrid key exchange in TLS 1.3

D. Stebila, S. Fluhrer, S. Gueron. Internet-Draft, July 2019.

A reduction-based proof for authentication and session key security in 3-party Kerberos

J. Schwenk, D. Stebila. 2019.

FrodoKEM: Learning with errors key encapsulation

E. Alkim, J. W. Bos, L. Ducas, K. Easterbrook, B. LaMacchia, P. Longa, I. Mironov, M. Naehrig, V. Nikolaenko, C. Peikert, A. Raghunathan, D. Stebila. Submission to the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography standardization project, Round 2. Revised July 2, 2019, July 2019.

Presentations

You can download slides from my presentations.

Software

I am co-founder of the Open Quantum Safe project. Check out our code on Github.

Editorial boards

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Conferences

I am on / have been on the following program committees:

Grants

My major grants include:

Graduate Students

Please see my supervision page for information about current and past graduate students, as well as about working with me.

Research Experience