- Introduction to Cryptography and Security
- Mathematical Preliminaries
- Introduction to Quantum Computing and Post-Quantum Cryptography
- Hash-Based Signature Schemes
- An Introduction to Linear Error-Borrecting Codes
- Code-Based Cryptography
- Lattices and the LLL Algorithm
- Lattice-Based Cryptography
- Multivariate Cryptography
Biography
Dr. Douglas Stinson obtained his PhD in Mathematics 1981 from the University of Waterloo. He held faculty positions at the University of Manitoba, the University of Nebraska and the University of Waterloo, where he was named University Professor in 2013. Following his retirement in 2019, Dr. Stinson is a Professor Emeritus in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Stinson’s research interests include combinatorial mathematics and cryptography. He is the author of over 400 research papers and several books. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2011. Dr. Stinson was awarded the 2022 Stanton Medal by the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications. He also received the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from CS-Can | Info-Can, the national non-profit organization dedicated to representing computer science and the interests of the discipline across Canada. He is the author of Techniques for Designing and Analyzing Algorithms, CRC Press, 2024, and Combinatorial Algorithms Generation, Enumeration, and Search (w/Donald L. Kreher), CRC Press.
