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Andrew Fregly

Distinguished Engineer


Biography

Andrew Fregly is a distinguished engineer reporting to the chief technology officer. He serves as the senior technology expert in the CTO organization and is focused on researching emerging technologies of interest to Verisign.

Most recently Andrew worked at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority as associate vice president of enterprise architecture. He managed the senior software architects within FINRA’s major lines of business and led the ongoing evolution of FINRA’s enterprise architecture.

Prior to that, Andrew had leadership positions in software consulting companies and software product companies ranging from ownership to CTO to lead architect. He has also provided independent consulting and technical services to Fortune 500 corporations and major government agencies with a focus on information retrieval, knowledge management, workflow, document management, and case management. Andrew began his career as a programmer/analyst for General Electric, AMF, and Scicon Systems Control. Over his career, Andrew has been the inventor on numerous patents.

Andrew earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from the University of Maryland.

Publications

Andrew Fregly, Joseph Harvey, Burt Kaliski, Swapneel Sheth
Considerations for Integrating Merkle Tree Ladder (MTL) Mode Signatures into Applications
2024
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Andrew Fregly, Joseph Harvey, Burt Kaliski, Duane Wessels
Stateless Hash-Based Signatures in Merkle Tree Ladder Mode (SLH-DSA-MTL) for DNSSEC
2023
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Andrew Fregly, Joseph Harvey, Burt Kaliski, Swapneel Sheth
Comments on FIPS 205 (Draft): Stateless Hash-Based Signature Standard
2023
Publications / Papers
Taejoong Chung, Roland van Rijswijk-Deij, Andrew Fregly, Moritz Müller, Caspar Schutijser, Peter Thomassen
Research Agenda for a Post-Quantum DNSSEC
2023
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Andrew Fregly, Joseph Harvey, Burt Kaliski, Swapneel Sheth
Merkle Tree Ladder Mode (MTL) Signatures
2023
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Andrew Fregly
Projecting Impact of Post Quantum Cryptography on Registry Operations. CENTR
2023
Presentations / Panels
Andrew Fregly, Joseph Harvey, Burt Kaliski, Swapneel Sheth
Merkle Tree Ladder Mode: Reducing the Size Impact of NIST PQC Signature Algorithms in Practice. IACR ePrint
2023
Publications / Papers
Andrew Fregly, Joseph Harvey, Burt Kaliski, Swapneel Sheth
Merkle Tree Ladder Mode: Reducing the Size Impact of NIST PQC Signature Algorithms in Practice. CT-RSA 2023
2023
Presentations / Panels
Andrew Fregly, Joseph Harvey, Burt Kaliski, Swapneel Sheth
Merkle Tree Ladder Mode: Reducing the Size Impact of NIST PQC Signature Algorithms in Practice. CT-RSA 2023
2023
Publications / Papers
Andrew Fregly
Research Agenda for a Post-Quantum DNSSEC. OARC 40
2023
Presentations / Panels
Andrew Fregly, Joseph Harvey, Burt Kaliski, Swapneel Sheth
Merkle Tree Ladder Mode: Reducing the Size Impact of NIST PQC Signature Algorithms in Practice. NIST PQC 2022
2022
Presentations / Panels
Andrew Fregly
Envisioning the Path to a Post-Quantum DNSSEC. PQNet
2022
Presentations / Panels
Andrew Fregly, Swapneel Sheth, Scott Hollenbeck
Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) Search Using POSIX Regular Expressions, Internet-draft
2016
Requests for Comments (RFC) / Internet Drafts
Andrew Fregly, Deborah A. Boehm-Davis
Documentation of Concurrent Programs
1983
Publications / Papers