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About Stafford Tavares
- Stafford Emanuel Tavares is a cryptographer, professor emeritus at Queen's University. His notable work includes the design (with Carlisle Adams) of the block ciphers CAST-128 and CAST-256.
- He also helped organize the first Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC) workshop in 1994.
- Since 2003, SAC has included an invited lecture in his honor, the Stafford Tavares Lecture.Tavares received his Ph.D.
- in 1968 from McGill University.
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