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I'm currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto. I am pursuing research in the field of cryptography as a member of the Theory of Computation group in the Department of Computer Science. My supervisor is Professor Charles Rackoff.

I completed an MSc in Computer Science (1999) at the University of Toronto, also under the supervision of Professor Charles Rackoff. I completed an Honours BSc in Computer Science with a minor in Pure Mathematics (1997) at the University of Calgary under the supervision of Lisa Higham.

Curriculum Vitae

If you're interested, here is a copy of my CV.

Research Interests

Below is a list of my research interests.

• Cryptography & Secure Computation
• Probabilistic Constructions and Combinatorics
• Complexity Theory 
• Randomized & Approximation Algorithms
• Distributed Computing 

Publications

• Shlomo Hoory, Avner Magen, Steven Myers & Charles Rackoff. Simple Permutations Mix Well. (To appear in ICALP 2004).
• Steven Myers, Black-Box Composition Does Not Imply Adaptive Security. (To appear in Eurocrypt 2004, Copyright IACR 2004)
• Steven Myers,  Efficient Amplification of the Security of Weak Pseudo-Random Function Generators, Journal of Cryptology, Vol. 16, Pages 1-24, Springer, 2003. (Extended Abstract appeared in EUROCRYPT 2001, LNCS 2045, Pages:358-372,  Springer, 2001)
• Jonathan Katz, Steven Myers & Rafial Ostrovsky, Cryptographic Counters and Applications to Electronic Voting, Proceedings of Advances in Cryptology-EUROCRYPT 2001, LNCS 2045, Pages 78-92, Springer, 2001 (Copyright IACR, 2001)
• Steven Myers.  On the Development of Block-Ciphers and Pseudo-Random Function Generators Using the Composition and XOR Operators. M.Sc. Thesis, 1999.
• Lisa Higham & Steven Myers. Self-Stabilizing Token Circulation on Anonymous Message Passing Rings, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference On Principles of Distributed Systems, pp. 115-128, 1998.
• Steven Myers. Models of Self-Stabilization, B.Sc. Honours Thesis, 1997

If you have comments or suggestions, email me at myers@cs.toronto.edu