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Winter break and spring ’08
Christmas break was fun, I ended up going to New Hampshire’s White Mountains and staying at an AMC lodge. Did a lot of snowshoeing, survived a blizzard, and generally got to be in lots of snow. I’m looking forward to … Continue reading
Fall 2007 school and stuff
This fall is a little bit different than most semesters – no class. I decided that I could fill my time easily enough with research that I didn’t need any busy work from courses. I’m currently working on web related … Continue reading
Spring 2007 almost over
This semester produced a couple interesting things. First, a project which tries to detect malware (particularly rootkits) and runs outside the OS, in a virtual machine. Second, another paper written by me, this time on botnets and command and control … Continue reading
Spring 2007
ECE 598 – Secure Hardware taught by David Nicol and CS 598 – Hot topics in virtualization and security taught by Sam King. Both classes are primarily paper reading courses. Trying to get lots of research done this spring. I … Continue reading
Fall 2006 courses
Taking: ECE 541 Computer Systems Analysis (Bill Sanders, David Nicol), CS 498 Program Optimization (Maria Garzaran), CS 498 Theoretical Foundations of Cryptography (Manoj Prabhakaran). Apparently intent of the crypto course is to never discuss a real cryptographic algorithm… My recommendation: … Continue reading
Spring 06 conclusion, Summer in CA
The spring semester is over, and I’ve learned some new things. What I learned in privacy class was that privacy enhancing technologies are complicated, and often can’t offer any official assurance. In advanced coding theory class I learned a whole … Continue reading
Spring ’06 Classes and activities
ECE 559 – Advanced Coding Theory and ECE 598 – Privacy Enhancing Techniques. Both courses have good professors (Ralf Koetter and Nikita Borisov). Also enrolled in the Security Reading Seminar, which is pretty much the same as the fall one, … Continue reading