Jesus Diaz Vico

Bio

I am a cryptography researcher in IOHK since September 2021.

Previously, I held industry R&D positions at the Foundations of Cryptography group in IBM Research Zurich, BBVA Next Technologies, Redsys and the Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE), besides several other prior part-time positions, accounting for 15+ years FTE.

I hold a PhD in Computer Science from UAM (2015), an MSc in Information Technologies from UPM (2010) and a BSc+MSc in Computer Science from UAM (2007). I have also collaborated with several research labs, such as the Network Security Lab at Columbia University, UPM’s CriptoLab and UPM’s Quantum Information and Computation Group.

Publications

Papers

Check them in DBLP or Google Scholar.

Other

• PhD Thesis: “Design and Implementation of Secure Protocols for Practical Authentication and Fair Anonymity Systems”.
• MSc Thesis: “Steganography and Steganalysis: Data Hiding in Vorbis Audio Streams”.
• ¿Qué sabemos de Blockchain? Educational book about blockchain (only in Spanish).

Projects

• libgroupsig. An extensible C library for group signatures. Initiated during my PhD thesis, then continued the work while at IBM Research.
  • I no longer maintain the library hosted at IBM’s Github. My former thesis advisor and his group are working on it now, with occasional help from me. Their fork of libgroupsig is accessible from their website.
• vorbistego. An (old) prototype of a steganographic system over Vorbis audio streams.

Contact

I am reachable by email at jesus.diaz.vico@gmail.com, and LinkedIn. I am jesusdiazvico at X/Twitter, BlueSky, and Warpcast.

GPG key 30FD B54C 5079 32EB 8D9A B36C 78A7 3BB7 B1A4 6D35.