Fernando Gont

Improving the security and resilience of Internet technologies

Staff Platform Security Engineer at Serve Robotics. Author of 40+ RFCs, and long-time IETF contributor. Bridging Internet standards, security research, and real-world engineering.

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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.

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RFC 7217

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

RFC 6528

Defending against Sequence Number Attacks, which become a recommended algorithm in the TCP standard.

RFC 6056

Recommendations for Transport-Protocol Port Randomization, widely adopted by transport protocols and applications.

RFC 9416

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