From June 2006, I am an independent Information Assurance Consultant.
From February 2005 to May 2006, I was with Andxor S.r.l. as Chief Security Architect.
From July 2001 to January 2005, I worked for C & A S.r.l. (an Andxor spin-off).
I joined C & A as a Sr. Security Architect.
In 2003, I've been appointed Chief Security Architect.
September 2006 - Cryptographic Key Reliable Lifetime passed a second round review process and now has been included in the selected papers from FDTC 2005/FDTC 2004 in the FDTC 2006 Proceedings - LNCS vol. 4236, pp 144-158, Springer Verlag.
May 2006 - I have resigned from Andxor and started to do full-time consultancies in the information assurance field. Should you wish to discuss possible consultancy opportunities, please feel free to contact me via email at the address at the top of this page.
February 2006 - I'll be speaking at the SIMAI VIII Congress being held at Baia Samuele (Ragusa), on May 22-26 2006.
The World Wide Weil and Tate Pairings: Applications of Pairing-Based Cryptography in the Semantic Web The extended abstract to appear in the Proceedings of the 8th SIMAI Congress.
The World Wide Weil and Tate Pairings: Applications of Pairing-Based Cryptography in the Semantic Web 22-26 May 2006 at The 8th Congress of SIMAI, Baia Samuele (Ragusa).
Cryptographic Key Reliable Lifetimes: Bounding the Risk of Key Exposure in the Presence of Faults 2nd September 2005 at Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography (FDTC) 2005, Edinburgh
View the slides here.
Deliberately Un-Dependable Applications: the Role of Dependability Metrics in Fault-Based Cryptanalysis
8th August 2003 at ESAT/SCSD-COSIC, Katholieke Universitat Leuven, at the invitation of Siddika Berna Ors Yalcin
Virtualizing Smart Cards: a Step Towards Ubiquitous Cryptography
12th January 2003 at SSGRR 2003, Scuola Superiore Reiss Romoli, Coppito (AQ) View the slides here.