Darío Clavijo is a seasoned systems and security engineer with 11 years of experience designing and hardening server architectures, virtualization platforms (Xen, KVM, VMware) and storage solutions (NAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI) from Montevideo, Uruguay. His practical expertise spans Linux/Unix operations, network protocols (SSH, FTP, HTTP, SMTP, SNMP, TCP/IP), LDAP, backups and monitoring (Nagios), combined with scripting in Python and Bash and VoIP with Asterisk. An active open-source contributor, he strengthened cryptographic tooling by improving factorization and attack algorithms in the widely used RsaCtfTool project, showing deep applied crypto and algorithmic skill beyond typical ops work. He brings a pragmatic security-first mindset informed by telecom and server infrastructure experience, and outside of work he’s a pilot, karateka and hands-on dad—traits that reflect discipline, situational awareness and steady leadership.
11 years of coding experience
Batchelor, Computer Science, Bachelor in Computer Science, Batchelor, Computer Science, Bachelor in Computer Science at Instituto Tecnologico Superior
Computer Science, Computer Science at Universidad de la República
RSA attack tool (mainly for ctf) - retrieve private key from weak public key and/or uncipher data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 reviews, 291 commits, 177 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Darío primarily contributed to the `rsactftool` repository, which is an RSA attack tool, with the implementation of various algorithms and improvements to existing attack methods. They worked on the factorization of integers using different approaches. They added attacks that work by testing composites for special forms such as Mersenne primes, Fermat primes, and primorial primes. In addition, the user improved existing algorithms, such as the Dixon and Euler attacks.
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