Dr Lawrie Brown

His research interests include cryptography, communications and computer systems security, and safe mobile code execution. You can see his research papers, and some seminars he has given. He was awarded his PhD in 1991 in the field of cryptography, for a PhD thesis which analysed the DES encryption algorithm and then presented the design of the LOKI private-key block cipher. He then developed the AES candidate LOKI97 block cipher. More recently, his research has been on the Safe Erlang mobile code system, started during his 1997 and 2002 sabbaticals, and continued during subsequent summer visits to the Monash Uni Peninsula School of IT. He also supervises several postgraduate research students working on various aspects of security.

He lectures postgraduate courses in Computer Security and Cryptography; and undergraduate courses in Computing Technology, Data Structures & Representation, Programming Fundamentals and Cryptography. He has recently co-authoring a new text on Computer Security with William Stallings, published by Prentice-Hall in August 2007. He is also a CCNA instructor with the Cisco Regional Networking Academy in Canberra.