Armando Faz is a research engineer working on securing cryptographic software and communication protocols. His research focuses on optimizing and developing communication protocols using classic and quantum-resistant cryptography.
Research Areas
Cryptography Engineering, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Post-Quantum Cryptography
Projects
Publications
2023RFC 9497: Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions (OPRFs) Using Prime-Order Groups
Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). 2023.
Alex Davidson,
Armando Faz-Hernandez,
Nick Sullivan,
Christopher A. Wood
2023RFC 9380: Hashing to Elliptic Curves
Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). 2023.
Armando Faz-Hernandez,
Sam Scott,
Nick Sullivan,
Riad S. Wahby,
Christopher A. Wood
2023Portunus: Re-imagining access control in distributed systems
2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 23), pp. 35-52, Boston, MA, 2023.
Watson Ladd,
Marloes Venema,
Tanya Verma,
Armando Faz-Hernandez,
Brendan McMillion,
Avani Wildani,
Nick Sullivan
2023Post-Quantum Privacy Pass via Post-Quantum Anonymous Credentials
Real World Crypto Symposium 2023. Tokyo, Japan. March 2023.
Vamsi Policharla,
Bas Westerbaan,
Armando Faz-Hernandez,
Christopher A. Wood
2022Let The Right One In: Attestation as a Usable CAPTCHA Alternative
Eighteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2022), Boston, MA. 2022.
Tara Whalen,
Thibault Meunier,
Mrudula Kodali,
Alex Davidson,
Marwan Fayed,
Armando Faz-Hernandez,
Watson Ladd,
Deepak Maram,
Nick Sullivan,
Benedikt Christoph Wolters,
Maxime Guerreiro,
Andrew Galloni
2021Implementing and measuring KEMTLS
Progress in Cryptology – LATINCRYPT 2021, Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12912. Springer, 2021.
Sofía Celi,
Armando Faz-Hernandez,
Nick Sullivan,
Goutam Tamvada,
Luke Valenta,
Thom Wiggers,
Bas Westerbaan,
Christopher A. Wood
2021Post-quantum TLS without handshake signatures
Real World Crypto Symposium 2021. Virtual. January 2021.
Sofía Celi,
Armando Faz-Hernandez,
Peter Schwabe,
Douglas Stebila,
Thom Wiggers
2021ZKAttest: Ring and Group Signatures for Existing ECDSA Keys
Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2021). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13203, Springer, Cham, 2021.
Armando Faz-Hernandez,
Watson Ladd,
Deepak Maram
Blog posts
- Privacy Pass: upgrading to the latest protocol version
- Hertzbleed explained
- Pairings in CIRCL
- Privacy Pass v3: the new privacy bits
- The Quantum Menace
- Introducing CIRCL: An Advanced Cryptographic Library