MARK STAMP
stamp@cs.sjsu.edu
Department of Computer Science
San Jose State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, California  95192

Education

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


Employment



Personal Data



Expertise and Experience



Professional Organizations



Selected Academic Referee Experience



Consulting Experience



Patents

  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.


Grants



Recent Conferences and Presentations



Publications

  1. A highly metamorphic virus generator, with P. Desai (student), submitted.

  2. iPhone security analysis, with V. Pandya (student), submitted.

  3. Network traffic clustering and visualization, with A. Hushyar (student), submitted.

  4. Handbook of Information and Communication Security, editor, with P. Stavroulakis, Springer, March 2010.

  5. An introduction to software reverse engineering, with T. Cipresso (student), to appear in Handbook of Communication Security.

  6. QuickPay online payment protocol, with J. Dai (student), Proceedings of SEKE '08.

  7. Profile hidden Markov models and metamorphic virus detection, with S. Attaluri (student) and S. McGhee (student), Journal in Computer Virology, online first.

  8. Digital rights management for streaming media, with D. Brahmbhatt (student), Handbook of Research on Secure Multimedia Distribution, IGI Global, March 2009, ISBN: 978-1-60566-262-6.

  9. Digital rights management for untrusted peer-to-peer networks, with P. Priyadarshini (student), Handbook of Research on Secure Multimedia Distribution, IGI Global, March 2009, ISBN: 978-1-60566-262-6.

  10. An agent-based privacy enhancing model, with H.-H. Lee (student), Information Management & Computer Security Vol. 16, No. 3, 2008, pp. 305–319.

  11. P2PTunes: A peer-to-peer digital rights management system, with R. Venkataramu (student), Handbook of Research on Secure Multimedia Distribution, IGI Global, March 2009, ISBN: 978-1-60566-262-6.

  12. SIGABA: Cryptanalysis of the full keyspace, with W. O. Chan (student), Cryptologia, Vol. 31, No. 3, July 2007, pp. 201–222.

  13. P3P privacy enhancing agent, 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.

  14. Hunting for metamorphic engines, with W. Wong (student), Journal in Computer Virology, Vol. 2, No. 3, December 2006, pp. 211–229.

  15. Applied Cryptanalysis: Breaking Ciphers in the Real World, with R. M. Low, Wiley-IEEE Press, April 2007, ISBN: 978-0-470-11486-5.

  16. King and rook vs. king on a quarter-infinite board, with R. M. Low, Integers: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory, Vol. 6, Article G3, 2006, 8 pages.

  17. 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.

  18. Role based access control and the JXTA peer-to-peer framework, with A. Mathur (student) and S. Kim, Proceedings of 2006 International Conference on Security & Management (SAM'06), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26–29, 2006.

  19. Metamorphic software for buffer overflow mitigation, 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.

  20. On using mouse movements as a biometric, 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.

  21. Stealthy ciphertext, with M. Simova (student) and C. Pollett, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'05), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27–30, 2005.

  22. Unpredictable binary strings, with R. M. Low, R. Craigen, and G. Faucher, Congressus Numerantium 177, 2005, pp. 65–75, MR2198651.

  23. Information Security: Principles and Practice, Wiley Interscience, September 2005, ISBN: 0-471-73848-4.

  24. Software watermarking via assembly code transformations, 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.

  25. Hamptonese and hidden Markov models, 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.

  26. Enterprise digital rights management: Ready for primetime?, with E. J. Sebes, Business Communications Review, March 2004, pp. 52–55.

  27. Risks of monoculture, Inside Risks 165, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 47, No. 3, March 2004, p. 120.

  28. 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.

  29. A characterization of a class of discrete nonlinear feedback systems, with D. I. Wallace, and C. F. Martin, Communications in Information and Systems, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2005, pp. 305–310.

  30. Solvable problems in enterprise digital rights management, with E. J. Sebes, Information Management & Computer Security, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2007, pp. 33–45.

  31. Secure streaming media and digital rights management, with D. Holankar (student), Proceedings of the 2004 Hawaii International Conference on Computer Science, Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2004, pp. 85–97.

  32. Digital rights management: For better or for worse?, ExtremeTech, May 20, 2003. Also appeared on eWEEK, May 1, 2003.

  33. The MediaSnap® digital rights management system, 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.

  34. Software uniqueness: How and why, 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.

  35. Pokémon® cards and the shortest common superstring, with A. E Stamp, Graph Theory Notes of New York XLVII, 2004, pp. 19–24, MR2134214.

  36. Risks of digital rights management, Inside Risks 147, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 45, No. 9, September 2002, p. 120.

  37. Digital rights management: The technology behind the hype, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2003, pp. 102–112.

  38. NSA paper, A stroll through WOK THROUGH, status unknown.

  39. Rush Hour® and Dijkstra's algorithm, 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.

  40. NSA paper, Let me count the ways..., status unknown.

  41. NSA paper, Hitchhiker's guide to dynamic programming, status unknown.

  42. NSA paper, STA PUF is no marshmallow, status unknown.

  43. Random walks on wheels, with M. Lee (student), Graph Theory Notes of New York XXXIII, 1997, pp. 24–25.

  44. NSA paper R51/TECH/038/93, S-243,676, November 1996: Title and subject classified.

  45. NSA paper Z52 TSR-007-95, August 1995: Title and subject classified.

  46. NSA paper Z21 TSR-21-94, December 1994: Title and subject classified.

  47. NSA paper Z52 ITN-004-94, February 1994: Title and subject classified.

  48. 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.

  49. 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.

  50. 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.

  51. 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.

  52. An analysis of the transmission of Chlamydia in a closed population, with C. F. Martin and L. J. S. Allen, Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1996, pp. 1–29, MR1375593.

  53. An algorithm for the k-error linear complexity of binary sequences with period 2n, with C. F. Martin, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT-39, No. 4, July 1993, pp. 1398–1401, MR1267161.

  54. 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.

  55. 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.

  56. A note on the error in Gaussian quadrature, with C. F. Martin, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 47, 1992, pp. 25–35, MR1137059.

  57. A generalized linear complexity, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Mathematics, Texas Tech University, May 1992.

  58. 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.

  59. Discrete observability and numerical quadrature, with C. F. Martin and X. Wang, IEEE Transacations on Automatic Control, Vol. AC-36, No. 11, November 1991, pp. 1337–1340, MR1130511.

  60. Mathematical analyses and simulations of a measles epidemic, 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.

  61. 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.

  62. Classification and realization of pseudo-random number generators, with C. F. Martin, Systems and Control Letters, Vol. 14, 1990, pp. 169–175, MR1044323.

  63. 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.

  64. Constructing polynomials over finite fields, Master's thesis, Department of Mathematics, Texas Tech University, December 1988.


Students



Unpublished Writings

  1. A revealing introduction to hidden Markov models, 2004.

  2. Once upon a time-memory tradeoff, 2003.

  3. Pokémon® trading card sequences, with A. E Stamp, 2002.

  4. Editor's introduction, Journal for Advanced Problem Solving of the Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, July 1997.

  5. Editor's introduction, Journal for Advanced Problem Solving of the Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, July 1996.

  6. Editor's introduction, Journal for Advanced Research of the Center for Mathematics, Science and Technology, Maryland Summer Centers for Gifted and Talented Students, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, July 1995.


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