Fernando Gont

Building Secure Platforms. Improving Internet Security.

Staff Platform Security Engineer at Serve Robotics, Internet protocol security researcher, and author/co-author of more than 40 IETF RFCs.

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40+ RFCs

Published Internet standards and Best Current
Practices through the IETF.

1800+ Citations

Research % Development recognized by academics and
engineers worldwide.

25+ Years

Improving Internet protocols, security,
privacy, and resilience.

Worldwide Impact

Technologies deployed in operating
systems and Internet infrastructure.

Key Areas of Expertise

Platform Security

Internet Protocols Security (IPv6, TCP/IP)

Internet Stanards Development

Internet Infrastructure Security

Open Source Security Tools

Featured Presentations

Featured Publications

RFC 7217

A method for generating semantically-opaque IPv6 Interface Identifiers, widely adopted by IPv6 implementations.

RFC 6528

Defending against Sequence Number Attacks, specifying the recommended algorithm for TCP sequence number randomization.

RFC 6056

Recommendations for Transport-Protocol Port Randomization, widely adopted by mosy transport protocol implementations.

RFC 9416

Security Considerations for Transient Numeric Identifiers Employed in Network Protocols, introducing IETF-wide requirements.