StefanBrands

From Identity Mashup

Dr. Stefan Brands has been professionally active in user-centric identity management since 1992, both as an academic and an entrepreneur. Stefan is the founder and president of Credentica, a Montreal-based company that provides strong authentication solutions for user-centric identity management. Outside of his day job, he is an Adjunct Professor in cryptology at McGill’s School of Computer Science. In the latter capacity Stefan co-supervises computer science students in the area of digital identity and privacy, and serves as a principal member of two R&D consortiums that focus on the same topic (http://anonequity.org and http://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/adapid). Prior to forming Credentica, Stefan was a senior cryptographer at Zero-Knowledge Systems (anonymous data transport) and before that at Digicash (private electronic cash). In 2004 and 2005 , Stefan served as an advisor to the Federal Privacy Commissioner of Canada. His dissertation on how to build secure user-centric identity that preserve privacy has been published in 2000 by The MIT Press, with a foreword by professor Ronald L. Rivest; the book is available for free download from www.credentica.com/the_mit_pressbook.php. In the early nineties, Stefan designed the basic e-cash protocols of a chipcard system that was implemented and piloted by two European consortiums that included Gemplus, Siemens, and major European banks. Stefan holds a Ph.D. in modern cryptography from Technical University of Eindhoven, and an M.Sc. in mathematics from University of Utrecht. His personal blog on digital identity management can be found at www.idcorner.org.