[2] Alfred Menezes' family is from Goa, a state in western India, but he was born in Tanzania and grew up in Kuwait except for a few years at a boarding school in India.
He co-founded and is a member of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research, and has served as its Managing Director.
He co-authored the widely-used reference book Handbook of Applied Cryptography.
[6] In 2001 Menezes won the Hall Medal of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.
[8] Menezes, in co-operation with Neal Koblitz, authored a series of Another Look papers that describe errors or weaknesses in existing security proofs, the first being Another look at HMAC (2013).