death_place death_date name birth_date known_for article_title birth_name occupation
milton , ontario 02 march 2014 scott vanstone 14 september 1947 elliptic curve cryptography , founder of certicom scott vanstone
 scott alexander vanstone cryptographer
scott vanstone

scott a. vanstone was a cryptographer who co-authored the `` handbook of applied cryptography '' .
he was on faculty at the university of waterloo 's faculty of mathematics and was a member of the school 's centre for applied cryptographic research .
he was also the founder of certicom .
in 1998 , he was elected a fellow of the royal society of canada , academy of sciences .
vanstone had a ph.d. in mathematics from the university of waterloo and received the university 's award for excellence in research .
he died on march 2 , 2014 after a short illness .
