Ph.D.	Mathematics	Texas Tech University	1/89–5/92
		Lubbock, Texas
M.S.	Mathematics	Texas Tech University	8/86–8/88
		Lubbock, Texas
B.S.	Computer Science	Morningside College	8/79–5/83
		Sioux City, Iowa
	High School	Harlan Community High School	8/75–5/79
		Harlan, Iowa

• Assistant/Associate Professor (8/02–present)
  Department of Computer Science
  San Jose State University
  San Jose, California
  
  Responsibilities
  • Teach undergraduate classes
    • Information Security (CS 166)
    • Computer Networks (CS 158A)
    • Network Management (CS 158B)
    • Introduction to Programming in Java (CS 46A)
    • Data Structures (CS 46B)
  • Teach graduate classes
    • Cryptography and Computer Security (CS 265)
    • Distributed Computing (CS 249)
    • Applied Network Security (CS 286)
  • Research and publication in information security and related fields
  • Direct Master's and undergraduate student research projects
  
  
  
• Lecturer (Winter Quarter 2003)
  Department of Computer Science
  University of California, Santa Cruz
  Santa Cruz, California
  
  Responsibilities
  • Teach graduate Combinatorial Algorithms (CMPS 211)
  
  
  
• Chief Cryptologic Scientist (12/00–4/02)
  MediaSnap, Inc.
  San Jose, California
  
  Responsibilities
  • Design, analyze, implement, and test security features of digital rights management (DRM) system, including proprietary scrambling, key management, and software uniqueness algorithms
  • Cryptographic, statistical, and mathematical analysis in support of digital watermarking, software encryption, and anti-debugging techniques
  • Implement and verify correct usage of encryption algorithms including AES and RSA
  • Software development in Microsoft Windows Visual C++
  • Analyze competing DRM systems,including patent reviews
  • Supervise junior software engineers
  • Produce written documentation including patent disclosures, detailed system specifications, and user documentation
  
  
  
• Cryptologic Mathematician (5/93–12/00)
  National Security Agency
  Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
  
  Responsibilities
  • Classified research and development in the fields of cryptography, algorithms, and networks in support of signals intelligence (SIGINT)
  • Classified speech research and development in support of SIGINT
  • Applied supercomputing and distributed computing
  • Software development using C in a UNIX environment on DEC/Compaq, Sun, and HP workstations
  • Project supervisor
  
  
  
• Visiting Assistant Professor (8/92–5/93)
  Mathematical Sciences
  Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  Worcester, Massachusetts
  
  Responsibilities
  • Academic research and publication in cryptography, combinatorics, epidemiology, simulation, numerical analysis, and control theory
  • Teach undergraduate Calculus I, Calculus III, and Graph Theory
  
  
  
• Teaching/Research Assistant (1/86–8/92)
  Department of Mathematics
  Texas Tech University
  Lubbock, Texas
  
  Responsibilities
  • Research in cryptography, control theory, epidemiology, and numerical analysis in support of research grants
  • Teach undergraduate Business Mathematics and College Algebra
  
  
  
• Part-time Instructor (5/85–8/85)
  Private language schools
  Taiwan
  
  Responsibilities
  • Teach English conversation
  
  
  
• Instructor (1/85–5/85)
  Nebraska Indian Community College
  Winnebago, Nebraska
  
  Responsibilities
  • Teach Introduction to Computers

• Citizenship: United States
  
  
• Highest security clearance held: TS//SI

• Information security
  
  
• Digital rights management (DRM)
  
  
• Cryptanalysis and cryptography
  
  
• Algorithms
  
  
• Networks and routing
  
  
• Speech research
  
  
• Graph theory and combinatorics
  
  
• Applied statistics
  
  
• High-performance computing
  
  
• Software development
  
  
• Epidemiology
  
  
• Numerical analysis
  
  
• Simulation
  
  
• T_EX and L^AT_EX

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  
  
• IEEE Computer Society
  
  
• Mathematical Association of America (MAA)

• Computers & Security
  
  
• Handbook of Research on Secure Multimedia Distribution
  
  
• 20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2008)
  
  
• Information Processing Letters
  
  
• Journal in Computer Virology
  
  
• 2007 International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2007)
  
  
• 4th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (Mobiquitous 2007)
  
  
• Computer Communications
  
  
• Review grant proposals for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
  
  
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  
  
• The Handbook of Computer Networks
  
  
• Communications in Information and Systems
  
  
• 2006 International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2006)
  
  
• Fourteenth International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IEEE ICCCN '05)
  
  
• Review grant proposals for the United States Civilian Research & Development Foundation
  
  
• The Handbook of Information Security
  
  
• Journal of Systems and Software
  
  
• IEEE Computer
  
  
• IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  
  
• 2004 Hawaii International Conference on Computer Science
  
  
• Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation, and Control

• CloakX, LLC
  Consulted on security topics related to digital content protection (9/06)
  
  
• Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA)
  Information Security Technology Working Group (INFOSEC TWG)
  Consulted on various topics in information security (8/04–present)
  
  
• Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA)
  Reviewed ISMACryp Draft Specification, Version 7.0 (8/03)
  
  
• SoftVault Systems, Inc.
  Consulted on DRM issues (6/03)
  
  
• Symantec Corporation
  Discussed plans for university research program (6/03)
  
  
• Health Technology Center (HealthTech)
  Consulted on impact of DRM and IT security in healthcare (10/02)
  
  
• Exploit Systems, Inc.
  Technical Advisory Board (5/02–8/04)

1. Method and protocols for online financial transactions, with J. Dai, pending.
   
   
2. Method for detecting computer viruses and malware using hidden Markov models, with W. Wong, pending.
   
   
3. Method for detecting computer viruses and malware using a similarity index, with W. Wong, pending.

• Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU), 2007–2008. Funding: $12,500.
  
  
• Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST), 2006–2008. Release time equivalent to one course per year.
  
  
• Junior Faculty Development Grant, San Jose State University, Spring 2006. Release time equivalent to one course.

• 2008 International Workshop on Multimedia Security in Communication (MUSIC '08), Hangzhou, China, August 25–28, 2008. Technical program committee
  
  
• USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET '08), San Jose, California, July 28, 2008. Program committee.
  
  
• 2008 International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2008), Porto, Portugal, July 26–29, 2008. Program committee.
  
  
• 20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2008), Redwood City, California, July 1–3, 2008. Track organizer: Security technology and systems.
  
  
• 2008 Information Assurance Capacity Building Program (IACBP), Summer Symposium, San Jose, California, June 12–13, 2008. Symposium chair and organizer.
  
  
• 2007 International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2007), Barcelona, Spain, July 28–31, 2007. Program committee.
  
  
• 2007 Information Assurance Capacity Building Program (IACBP), Summer Symposium, San Jose, California, June 14–15, 2007. Symposium co-chair and organizer.
  
  
• Invited presentation: Analysis and detection of metamorphic malware, with W. Wong (student), Ironport Systems, Inc., San Bruno, California, April 27, 2007.
  
  
• Seminar presentation: Metamorphic software for good and evil, with W. Wong (student), Stanford University, Stanford, California, September 26, 2006.
  
  
• Symantec Research Labs, Santa Monica, California, September 13, 2006. Invited presentation: Hunting for metamorphic engines [PowerPoint 548KB], with W. Wong (student).
  
  
• Defcon 14, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 4–6, 2006. Contributed presentation: Hunting for metamorphic engines [PowerPoint 224KB], with W. Wong (student).
  
  
• 2006 International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2006), Setubal, Portugal, August 7–10, 2008. Program committee.
  
  
• 2006 International Conference on Security & Management (SAM '06), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26–29, 2006. Contributed presentation: Role based access control and the JXTA peer-to-peer framework [PowerPoint 220KB].
  
  
• Colloquium presentation: Network security for fun and profit, California State University, East Bay, Hayward, California, May 5, 2006.
  
  
• RSA Conference 2006, San Jose, California, February 13–17, 2006.
  
  
• 2005 International MultiConference in Computer Science & Computer Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27–30, 2005. Tutorial presentation: Introduction to information security [Word 27KB].
  
  
• RSA Conference 2005, San Francisco, California, February 14–18, 2005.
  
  
• 2004 International MultiConference in Computer Science & Computer Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 21–24, 2004. Tutorial presentation: Digital rights management: the good, the bad, and the ugly [PDF 136KB].
  
  
• RSA Conference 2004, San Francisco, California, February 23–27, 2004. Read my trip report.
  
  
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, Phoenix, Arizona, January 7–10, 2004. Contributed presentation: The life and death of a Silicon Valley startup company [PowerPoint 44KB].
  
  
• New directions in control theory and applications (conference in Honor of Clyde Martin's 60th Birthday), Lubbock, Texas, November 14–15, 2003. Invited presentation: Hamptonese and hidden Markov models or when is a cipher not a cipher? [PowerPoint 811KB]. Read my trip report.
  
  
• Defcon 11, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 1–3, 2003. Read my trip report.
  
  
• Conference on Computer Science and its Applications, San Diego, California, July 1–2, 2003. Contributed presentation: The MediaSnap^® digital rights management system [PowerPoint 116KB]. Read my trip report.
  
  
• Colloquium presentation: Digital rights management in the real world, San Jose State University, May 8, 2003.
  
  
• Emerging Issues: Security, Mobility, Privacy, Stanford University, April 5, 2003.
  
  
• 2002 MEMS and Network Security Symposium, Santa Clara, California, September 7, 2002.
  
  
• RSA Conference 2002, San Jose, California, February 19–22, 2002. Read my trip report.
  
  
• Guest lecture: Classical and modern cryptanalysis, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California, May 17, 2001.
  
  
• Information Hiding 2001, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 25–27, 2001. Read my trip report.
  
  
• Mathematics 2000 Conference (M2K), National Security Agency, January 2000. Contributed presentation: Hitchhiker's guide to dynamic programming.
  
  
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, DC, January 2000.
  
  
• 1999 National Information Systems Security Conference (NISSC), Arlington, Virginia, October 18–21, 1999.
  
  
• Previous conferences and presentations can be found here.

1. QuickPay online payment protocol, with J. Dai (student), to appear in Proceedings of SEKE '08.
   
   
2. Profile hidden Markov models and metamorphic virus detection, with S. Attaluri (student) and S. McGhee (student), to appear in Journal in Computer Virology.
   
   
3. Digital rights management for streaming media, with D. Brahmbhatt (student), to appear in Handbook of Research on Secure Multimedia Distribution.
   
   
4. Digital rights management for untrusted peer-to-peer networks, with P. Priyadarshini (student), to appear in Handbook of Research on Secure Multimedia Distribution.
   
   
5. An agent-based privacy enhancing model, with H.-H. Lee (student), to appear in Information Management & Computer Security.
   
   
6. P2PTunes: A peer-to-peer digital rights management system, with R. Venkataramu (student), to appear in Handbook of Research on Secure Multimedia Distribution.
   
   
7. SIGABA: cryptanalysis of the full keyspace, [PDF 592KB], with W. O. Chan (student), Cryptologia, Vol. 31, No. 3, July 2007, pp. 201–222.
   
   
8. P3P privacy enhancing agent [PDF 212KB], with H.-H. Lee (student), Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Secure Web Services (SWS'06), Alexandria, Virginia, November 3, 2006, pp. 109–110.
   
   
9. Hunting for metamorphic engines [PDF 992KB], with W. Wong (student), Journal in Computer Virology, Vol. 2, No. 3, December 2006, pp. 211–229.
   
   
10. Applied Cryptanalysis: Breaking Ciphers in the Real World, with R. M. Low, Wiley-IEEE Press, April 2007, ISBN: 978-0-470-11486-5.
    
    
11. King and rook vs. king on a quarter-infinite board [PDF 160KB], with R. M. Low, Integers: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory, Vol. 6, Article G3, 2006, 8 pages.
    
    
12. Information theory, with D. Blockus, invited book chapter, The Handbook of Computer Networks, H. Bidgoli, editor, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., November 2007, ISBN: 978-0-471-64833-8.
    
    
13. Role based access control and the JXTA peer-to-peer framework, [PDF 256KB], with A. Mathur (student) and S. Kim, Proceedings of 2006 International Conference on Security & Management (SAM'06), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26–29, 2006.
    
    
14. Metamorphic software for buffer overflow mitigation [Word 1.8MB], with X. Gao (student), Proceedings of 3rd Conference on Computer Science and its Applications, P. P. Dey and M. N. Amin, editors, San Diego, California, June 28–30, 2005.
    
    
15. On using mouse movements as a biometric [Word 56KB], with S. Hashia (student) and C. Pollett, Proceedings of 3rd Conference on Computer Science and its Applications, P. P. Dey and M. N. Amin, editors, San Diego, California, June 28–30, 2005.
    
    
16. Stealthy ciphertext [PDF 136KB], with M. Simova (student) and C. Pollett, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'05), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27–30, 2005.
    
    
17. Unpredictable binary strings [PDF 264KB], with R. M. Low, R. Craigen, and G. Faucher, Congressus Numerantium 177, 2005, pp. 65–75, MR2198651.
    
    
18. Information Security: Principles and Practice, Wiley Interscience, September 2005, ISBN: 0-471-73848-4.
    
    
19. Software watermarking via assembly code transformations [Word 54KB], with S. Thaker (student), Proceedings of 2nd Conference on Computer Science and its Applications, P. P. Dey, M. N. Amin, and T. M. Gatton, editors, San Diego, California, June 2004, pp. 205–209.
    
    
20. Hamptonese and hidden Markov models [PDF 450KB], with E. Le (student), Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol. 321, Springer 2005, W. P. Dayawansa, A. Lindquist, and Y. Zhou, editors, pp. 367–378.
    
    
21. Enterprise digital rights management: Ready for primetime? [HTML], with E. J. Sebes, Business Communications Review, March 2004, pp. 52–55.
    
    
22. Risks of monoculture [HTML], Inside Risks 165, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 47, No. 3, March 2004, p. 120.
    
    
23. Multilevel security models, with A. Hushyar (student), invited chapter, The Handbook of Information Security, H. Bidgoli, editor, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., January 2006, ISBN: 0-471-64833-7.
    
    
24. A characterization of a class of discrete nonlinear feedback systems [PDF 92KB], with D. I. Wallace, and C. F. Martin, Communications in Information and Systems, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2005, pp. 305–310.
    
    
25. Solvable problems in enterprise digital rights management [Word 82KB], with E. J. Sebes, Information Management & Computer Security, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2007, pp. 33–45.
    
    
26. Secure streaming media and digital rights management [PDF 196KB], with D. Holankar (student), Proceedings of the 2004 Hawaii International Conference on Computer Science, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2004, pp. 85–97.
    
    
27. Digital rights management: For better or for worse?, ExtremeTech, May 20, 2003 [HTML]. Also appeared on eWEEK, May 1, 2003.
    
    
28. The MediaSnap^® digital rights management system [Word 80KB], with P. Sabadra (student), Proceedings of Conference on Computer Science and its Applications, P. P. Dey, M. N. Amin, and T. M. Gatton, editors, San Diego, California, July 2003.
    
    
29. Software uniqueness: how and why [Word 76KB], with P. Mishra (student), Proceedings of Conference on Computer Science and its Applications, P. P. Dey, M. N. Amin, and T. M. Gatton, editors, San Diego, California, July 2003.
    
    
30. Pokémon^® cards and the shortest common superstring [PDF 136KB], with A. E Stamp, Graph Theory Notes of New York XLVII, 2004, pp. 19–24, MR2134214.
    
    
31. Risks of digital rights management [HTML], Inside Risks 147, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 45, No. 9, September 2002, p. 120.
    
    
32. Digital rights management: The technology behind the hype [PDF 72KB], Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2003, pp. 102–112.
    
    
33. NSA paper, A stroll through WOK THROUGH, status unknown.
    
    
34. Rush Hour^® and Dijkstra's algorithm [PDF 176KB], with B. Engel (student), M. Ewell (student), and V. Morrow (student), Graph Theory Notes of New York XL, 2001, pp. 23–30, MR1823243. Expanded tables of results [PDF 28KB].
    
    
35. NSA paper, Let me count the ways..., status unknown.
    
    
36. NSA paper, Hitchhiker's guide to dynamic programming, status unknown.
    
    
37. NSA paper, STA PUF is no marshmallow, status unknown.
    
    
38. Random walks on wheels, with M. Lee (student), Graph Theory Notes of New York XXXIII, 1997, pp. 24–25.
    
    
39. NSA paper R51/TECH/038/93, S-243,676, November 1996: Title and subject classified.
    
    
40. NSA paper Z52 TSR-007-95, August 1995: Title and subject classified.
    
    
41. NSA paper Z21 TSR-21-94, December 1994: Title and subject classified.
    
    
42. NSA paper Z52 ITN-004-94, February 1994: Title and subject classified.
    
    
43. A model for the optimal control of a measles epidemic, with C. F. Martin, L. Allen, M. Jones, and R. Carpio, Computation and Control III: Proceedings of the Third Bozeman Conference, Progress in Systems and Control Theory, Vol. 15, K. Bowers and J. Lund, editors, Boston: Birkhäuser, 1993, MR1247482.
    
    
44. Urn model simulations of a sexually transmitted disease epidemic, with C. F. Martin, and L. J. S. Allen, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 71, 1995, pp. 179–199.
    
    
45. Pseudo-random sequences in secret key cryptography, with C. F. Martin, Proceedings of the 1992 International Computer Symposium, Vol. 1, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, 1992, pp. 166–173.
    
    
46. Stochastic analysis of vaccination strategies, with L. Allen, T. Lewis, C. Martin, R. Carpio, M. Jones, G. Mundel, and A. Way, Stochastic Theory and Adaptive Control, Proceedings of a workshop held in Lawrence, Kansas, September 26–28, 1991, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 184, T. E. Duncan and B. Pasik-Duncan, editors, Springer-Verlag, 1992, pp. 1–11.
    
    
47. An analysis of the transmission of Chlamydia in a closed population [HTML], with C. F. Martin and L. J. S. Allen, Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1996, pp. 1–29, MR1375593.
    
    
48. An algorithm for the k-error linear complexity of binary sequences with period 2ⁿ [HTML], with C. F. Martin, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT-39, No. 4, July 1993, pp. 1398–1401, MR1267161.
    
    
49. Gaussian quadrature and linear systems, with C. F. Martin, Computation and Control II: Proceedings of the Second Bozeman Conference, Progress in Systems and Control Theory, Vol. 11, K. Bowers and J. Lund, editors, Boston: Birkhäuser, 1991, pp. 263–277, MR1140027.
    
    
50. Analysis of a measles epidemic, with L. J. S. Allen, T. Lewis, C. F. Martin, G. Mundel, A. B. Way, C. K. Lo, and M. A. Jones, Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 12, 1993, pp. 229–239.
    
    
51. A note on the error in Gaussian quadrature, with C. F. Martin, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 47, 1992, pp. 25–35, MR1137059.
    
    
52. A generalized linear complexity, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Mathematics, Texas Tech University, May 1992.
    
    
53. Analysis of infinite dimensional dynamic systems with nonlinear observation over a finite field, with C. F. Martin, Modeling, Estimation and Control of Systems with Uncertainty, Progress in Systems and Control Theory, Vol. 10, G. B. DiMasi, A. Gombani, and A. B. Kurzhansky, editors, Boston: Birkhäuser, 1991, pp. 301–323, MR1133379.
    
    
54. Discrete observability and numerical quadrature [HTML], with C. F. Martin and X. Wang, IEEE Transacations on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-36, No. 11, November 1991, pp. 1337–1340, MR1130511.
    
    
55. Mathematical analyses and simulations of a measles epidemic [HTML], with L. Allen, T. Lewis, C. Martin, M. Jones, C. Lo, G. Mundel, and A. Way Proceedings of the American Statistical Association Biometric Society-Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Spring Meeting, March 24–27, 1991, Houston, Texas.
    
    
56. A mathematical analysis and simulation of a localized measles epidemic, with L. J. S. Allen, T. Lewis, and C. F. Martin, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 39, 1990, pp. 61–77.
    
    
57. Classification and realization of pseudo-random number generators [HTML], with C. F. Martin, Systems and Control Letters, Vol. 14, 1990, pp. 169–175, MR1044323.
    
    
58. Constructing polynomials over finite fields, with C. F. Martin, Computation and Control: Proceedings of the Bozeman Conference, Progress in Systems and Control Theory, Vol. 1, K. Bowers and J. Lund, editors, Boston: Birkhäuser, 1989, pp. 233–252, MR1046854.
    
    
59. Constructing polynomials over finite fields, Master's thesis, Department of Mathematics, Texas Tech University, December 1988.

• Master's Students
  
  
  1. S. Govindaraj, Practical detection of metamorphic computer viruses, in preparation.
     
     
  2. A. Panicker, BotSim: A botnet simulator, in preparation.
     
     
  3. P. Desai, Towards an undetectable computer virus, in preparation.
     
     
  4. C. Mathenia, Autosteroegram CAPTCHAs, in preparation.
     
     
  5. J. Zhang, Document distribution and tracking system, in preparation.
     
     
  6. P. Basavaraju, Heuristic search cryptanalysis of the Zodiac 340-cipher, in preparation.
     
     
  7. V. Pandya, iPhone security analysis, in preparation.
     
     
  8. H. Kwong, Sigaba attack for CrypTools, in preparation.
     
     
  9. A. Venkatesan, Code obfuscation and metamorphic virus detection, in preparation.
     
     
  10. E. Patil, Tracking botnets using a honeynet, in preparation.
      
      
  11. J. Morparia, P2P botnet analysis and detection, in preparation.
      
      
  12. T. Dao, Analysis of the Zodiac 340-cipher [PDF 1.5MB]. Completed Fall 2007.
      
      
  13. Y. Zhang, Single sign-on web portal based on Kerberos [Word 1.0MB]. Completed Spring 2008.
      
      
  14. S. McGhee, Pairwise alignment of metamorphic computer viruses [PDF 294KB]. Completed Fall 2007.
      
      
  15. D. Tu, A covert botnet, in preparation.
      
      
  16. S. Attaluri, Profile hidden Markov models for metamorphic virus analysis [PDF 548KB]. Completed Fall 2007.
      
      
  17. R. Philip, Securing wireless networks from ARP cache poisoning [PDF 748KB]. Completed Spring 2007.
      
      
  18. K. V. Nguyen, Secure P2P transactions using a hierarchical TTP system [PDF 2.3MB]. Completed Spring 2007.
      
      
  19. R. Venkataramu, Analysis and enhancement of Apple's Fairplay digital rights management [PDF 428KB]. Completed Spring 2007.
      
      
  20. W. O. Chan, SIGABA: cryptanalysis of the full keyspace [PDF 1MB]. Completed Spring 2007.
      
      
  21. S. S. Kim, Geometry-based detection of flash worms [PDF 568KB]. Completed Fall 2006.
      
      
  22. P. Priyadarshini, P2PRM: a peer-to-peer rights management system [PDF 508KB]. Completed Fall 2006.
      
      
  23. H.-H. Lee, P3P privacy enhancing agent [PDF 1.3MB]. Completed Fall 2006.
      
      
  24. C. S. Lee, Bluetooth security protocol analysis and improvements [PDF 360KB]. Completed Spring 2006.
      
      
  25. W. Wong, Analysis and detection of metamorphic computer viruses [PDF 932KB]. Completed Spring 2006.
      
      
  26. J. Dai, QuickPay: an online payment protocol [PDF 472KB]. Completed Spring 2006.
      
      
  27. M. Simova, Stealthy ciphertext [PDF 204KB]. Completed Spring 2005.
      
      
  28. A. Mathur, Incorporating RBAC into the JXTA peer-to-peer infrastructure [Word 328KB]. Completed Spring 2005.
      
      
  29. J. Yang, APTPFS: anonymous peer-to-peer file sharing [Word 492KB]. Completed Spring 2005.
      
      
  30. X. Gao, Metamorphic software for buffer overflow mitigation [Word 436KB]. Completed Spring 2005.
      
      
  31. N. D. Kashyap, A meaningful MD5 collision attack [PDF 1.8MB]. Completed Fall 2006.
      
      
  32. T. T. Tsai, Hidden markov model for text analysis [Word 1.65MB]. Completed Fall 2004.
      
      
  33. S. Thaker, Software watermarking via assembly code transformations [PDF 672KB]. Completed Spring 2004.
      
      
  34. S. Marwani, ARP cache poisoning detection and prevention [PDF 377KB]. Completed Fall 2003.
      
      
  35. S. Parihar, Fraud tolerant distributed computing [Word 276KB]. Completed Fall 2003.
      
      
  36. D. Holankar, Streaming media security using digital rights management [PDF 319KB]. Completed Spring 2004.
      
      
  37. K. Skachkov, Tamper-resistant software: design and implementation [Word 257KB]. Completed Fall 2003.
      
      
  38. P. Mishra, A taxonomy of software uniqueness transformations [Word 380KB]. Completed Fall 2003.
      
      
• Undergraduate Students
  
  
  1. E. Bongso, A. Khera, F. Negandhi, and S. Quintero, Flash worm detection, 2007–2008.
     
     
  2. T. Stehle, Analysis of viruses that carry their metamorphic engine, Spring 2007.
     
     
  3. Y. Li, Anomaly based detection of flash worms, Fall 2005.
     
     
  4. T. Dao, Purple cipher: simulation and improved hill climb attack, Fall 2005.
     
     
  5. T. Nikl, Flash worm simulation and detection, Spring 2005.
     
     
  6. J. Olsen, Spyware detection for Mac OS X, Spring 2005.
     
     
  7. E. Le, A linguistic analysis of Hamptonese, Spring 2005.
     
     
  8. H. Ghorbani-Moghaddam, DNA sequence alignment, Fall 2003.
     
     
  9. E. Le, A hidden Markov model analysis of Hamptonese, Summer 2003.

1. A revealing introduction to hidden Markov models [PDF 152KB], 2004.
   
   
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