Matthias Vallentin
Short Bio
I am doctoral student in computer science at
UC Berkeley, where I have the good fortune of being advised by Vern
Paxson.
I also have an office at the International Computer Science
Institute (ICSI), where I collaborate with folks
from the networking group.
Before moving to California, I received a B.S. and M.S. from the Technische
Universität München.
Contact
- Email: vallentin@icir.org / matthias@bro.org
- Phone: +1 510 666-2938 (ICSI)
- Twitter: @mavam
Research
My research interests primarily cover large-scale network intrusion detection and high-performance traffic analysis. Most of my current work focuses on network forensics in conjunction with the Bro network security monitor.
Recent Research
The research page contains a complete list of papers and slides.
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Matthias Vallentin.
libcppaNow: High-Level Distributed Programming Without Sacrificing Performance. C++Now. May 2013. -
Devdatta Akhawe, Bernhard Amann, Matthias Vallentin, and Robin Sommer. Here’s My Cert, So Trust Me, Maybe? Understanding TLS Errors on the Web. 22nd International Word Wide Web Conference. May, 2013.
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Bernhard Ahmann, Matthias Vallentin, Seth Hall, and Robin Sommer. Revisiting SSL: A Large-Scale Study of the Internet’s Most Trusted Protocol. ICSI TR-12-015. Berkeley, December 2012.
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Bernhard Ahmann, Matthias Vallentin, Robin Sommer, and Seth Hall. Extracting Certificates from Live Traffic: A Near Real-Time SSL Notary Service. ICSI TR-12-014. Berkeley, November 2012.
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Robin Sommer, Lorenzo De Carli, Nupur Kothari, Matthias Vallentin, and Vern Paxson. HILTI: An Abstract Execution Environment for Concurrent, Stateful Network Traffic Analysis. ICSI TR-12-003. Berkeley, January 2012.
Teaching
At UC Berkeley, I served as teaching assistant for the undergraduate computer security course (CS 161) in Spring 2011 and Spring 2013.
Blog
The blog archive contains the full list of articles; excerpt pages are also available.
Recent Entries
| December 18, 2012 | Github Commit Emails with Full Diff of Changes |
| December 16, 2011 | High-Level Network Traffic Profiling |
| June 22, 2011 | Better NIDS Performance by Tracking Roaming Users |
| June 15, 2011 | Omni, Take Two |
| June 14, 2011 | A Garden Variety of Bloom Filters |
Tags
- bro
- browser
- C++
- cluster
- cookies
- exploits
- intrusion detection
- linux
- math
- meta programming
- metasploit
- MITM
- probability
- reverse engineering
- ruby
- sidejacking
- SMTP
- statistics
- theory
- TLS
- tools
- traffic analysis
- usb
- wireless
