Stefan Brands

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Stefan Brands
Scientific career
Fields	Cryptography
Institutions	CWI University of Utrecht McGill University School of Computer Science
Doctoral advisors	Adi Shamir Henk van Tilborg

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

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

^ Gohring, Nancy (6 March 2008). "Microsoft buys U-Prove technology". Computerworld. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Stefan Brands". EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Center. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
^ How DigiCash Blew Everything, NEXT magazine, January 1999.
^ 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.
^ About the CAFE project, April 1996.
^ OPERA - Open Payments European Research Association, July 1997.
^ Chaum, David; Brands, Stefan (4 January 1999). "'Minting' electronic cash". IEEE Spectrum special issue on electronic money, February 1997. IEEE. Retrieved 17 September 2018.