Armando Faz Hernandez
Armando Faz Hernandez

Cryptography Engineer

About Me

Computer scientist interested on cryptography and information security.

Interests
  • Cryptographic Engineering
  • Elliptic Curves
  • High-Performance Computing
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science

    University of Campinas, Brazil

  • MSc in Computer Science

    CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico

  • BSc in Computer Engineering

    Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi, Mexico

Recent Publications
(2025). Rhizomes and the Roots of Efficiency—Improving Prio. Progress in Cryptology — LATINCRYPT 2025.
(2024). High-Performance Elliptic Curve Cryptography: A SIMD Approach to Modern Curves. Anais Estendidos do XXIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Segurança da Informação e de Sistemas Computacionais.
(2023). Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions (OPRFs) Using Prime-Order Groups. RFC Editor.
(2023). Hashing to Elliptic Curves. RFC Editor.