Matteo Giordano

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Demystifying Passkeys Under the Hood: The Architecture ↗

13 May 2026

A look at passkey architecture: device-bound vs synced credentials, the three authenticator categories, and real-world deployment pitfalls like magic link fallbacks and signature counters. Published on the Anvil Secure blog.

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Demystifying Passkeys Under the Hood: The Protocol ↗

07 May 2026

A deep dive into the WebAuthn/CTAP protocol that powers passkeys, breaking down what actually happens on the wire during registration and authentication. Published on the Anvil Secure blog.

Cybersecurity
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PageBuster: Stealthily Dump All the Code Ever Executed ↗

31 Mar 2021

A kernel module infrastructure to stealthily dump executable pages of packed processes at runtime. Published on the rev.ng blog.

Cybersecurity
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Pipeline-integrity: Scaling Authenticated Data Structures to the Cloud ↗

29 May 2019

Paper by Pennino, Pizzonia, and Griscioli published in Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier). My bachelor thesis implementation contributed to this work.

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