Mike Gualtieri @ cs.pitt.edu

During my time as a computer science graduate student I worked with the NETSEC (Network Security) and COPA (Compilers, Programming Languages, and Archetectures) groups. My research interests were in system/network security.
My Masters project involved adding a security extension to Netnice, a network control primitive for FreeBSD, that allowed for the integration of Snort, an open source IDS, alerts.

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2000

Tear it Down and Build it Up: A Quantum Twist on Information Decoding and Encoding
The goal of this paper is to give the reader an understanding on the emerging
field of quantum cryptography. A brief introduction to quantum computation is
given followed by an overview of classical cryptography. This will give the
basis for the remainder of the paper, which will explain quantum cryptography
and some of it's advances/standards. Concluding the paper will be drawbacks of
using this method of encryption.
Written as an undergrad at Seton Hall University.
Published in the SecurityFocus Library.

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2002

Securing Software: The Methods, the Problems, the Solutions?
All software has the potential to contain vulnerabilities. Currently a common
practice is to "hope and pray" that a system won't become compromised until a
vendor releases a patch to correct the problem. Several packages have been
released which attempt to protect a vulnerable system from becoming compromised,
despite having vulnerable software. These methods have weaknesses and strengths,
which must be evaluated before attempting to solve this problem.
A survey paper written as part of my graduate course work.

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2003

M. Gualtieri and D. Mosse', Limiting Worms Via QoS Degradation

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2003

T. Okumura, M. Gualtieri and D. Mosse', "Netnice Daemon version 2: Scripting Traffic Control and Network Security", Dec 2003. (submitted)

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2003

T. Okumura, M. Gualtieri and D. Mosse', "The Netnice Packet Filter - Bridging the Architectural Mismatches in End-host Network Security", Dec 2003. (submitted)

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2004

M. Gualtieri, T. Okumura, and D. Mosse', Snorting Netnice: A Rate Limiting IDS

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PDF	2000	Tear it Down and Build it Up: A Quantum Twist on Information Decoding and Encoding The goal of this paper is to give the reader an understanding on the emerging field of quantum cryptography. A brief introduction to quantum computation is given followed by an overview of classical cryptography. This will give the basis for the remainder of the paper, which will explain quantum cryptography and some of it's advances/standards. Concluding the paper will be drawbacks of using this method of encryption. Written as an undergrad at Seton Hall University. Published in the SecurityFocus Library.
PDF \| PS	2002	Securing Software: The Methods, the Problems, the Solutions? All software has the potential to contain vulnerabilities. Currently a common practice is to "hope and pray" that a system won't become compromised until a vendor releases a patch to correct the problem. Several packages have been released which attempt to protect a vulnerable system from becoming compromised, despite having vulnerable software. These methods have weaknesses and strengths, which must be evaluated before attempting to solve this problem. A survey paper written as part of my graduate course work.
PDF \| PS	2003	M. Gualtieri and D. Mosse', Limiting Worms Via QoS Degradation
PDF \| PS	2003	T. Okumura, M. Gualtieri and D. Mosse', "Netnice Daemon version 2: Scripting Traffic Control and Network Security", Dec 2003. (submitted)
PDF \| PS	2003	T. Okumura, M. Gualtieri and D. Mosse', "The Netnice Packet Filter - Bridging the Architectural Mismatches in End-host Network Security", Dec 2003. (submitted)
PDF \| PS	2004	M. Gualtieri, T. Okumura, and D. Mosse', Snorting Netnice: A Rate Limiting IDS