Publications
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.
Gregor Maier, Anja Feldmann, Vern Paxson, Robin Sommer, and Matthias Vallentin. An Assessment Of Overt Malicious Activity Manifest In Residential Networks. Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA). July 2011.
Yahel Ben-David, Shaddi Hasan, Joyojeet Pal, Matthias Vallentin, Saurabh Panjwani, Philipp Gutheim, Jay Chen, and Eric Brewer. Computing Security in the Developing World: A Case for Multidisciplinary Research. 5th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR). June 2011.
Yahel Ben-David, Matthias Vallentin, Seth Fowler, and Eric Brewer. JaldiMAC - Taking the Distance Further. 4th ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR). June 2010.
Matthias Vallentin, Robin Sommer, Jason Lee, Craig Leres, Vern Paxson, Brian Tierney. The NIDS Cluster: Scalably Stateful Network Intrusion Detection on Commodity Hardware. Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID). 2007.
Technical Reports
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.
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.
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.
Theses
Matthias Vallentin. VAST: Network Visibility Across Space and Time. Master’s Thesis. Munich, Germany, January 2009.
Matthias Vallentin. Transparent Load-Balancing for Network Intrusion Detection Systems. Bachelor’s Thesis. Munich, Germany, November 2006.
Presentations
libcppa Now: High-Level Distributed Programming Without Sacrificing
Performance.
C++Now. Aspen, Colorado, May 2013.
Towards Large-Scale Incident Response and Interactive Network Forensics. Dissertation proposal. UC Berkeley, December 2011.
Network Forensics with Bro. Talk at the Bro workshop. NCSA, Champaign-Urbana, November 2011.
Tools of the Trade. Talk at the Bro workshop. NCSA, Champaign-Urbana, November 2011.
Intrusion Detection and the Bro NIDS. Presentation in the lecture Security Engineering. Munich, July 2008.
Beyond Stack Smashing. Presentation in the Operating Systems Laboratory. Munich, February 2007.
WiFi Basics & Security. Invited talk in the lecture Internet Protocols held by Prof. Anja Feldman. Munich, July 2006. (German)
Course Work
Matthias Vallentin and Gene Pang. Bloom Filter Redux. In CS 270: Combinatorical Algorithms and Data Structures. UC Berkeley, Spring 2011.
Matthias Vallentin. Cacheable Web Objects: Understanding Their Modification Times. In STAT 248: Time Series Analysis. UC Berkeley, Fall 2010.
Adam Roberts, Harold Pimentel, and Matthias Vallentin. Model Selection for Bias Correction in RNA-Seq. In STAT 241: Statistical Learning Theory - Graphical Models. UC Berkeley, Fall 2010.
Matthias Vallentin and Yahel Ben-David. Quantifying Persistent Browser Cache Poisoning. In CS 294-50: Advanced Topics in Computer Security. UC Berkeley, Spring 2010.
Yahel Ben-David, Matthias Vallentin, Seth Fowler, and Samuel Zats. JaldiMAC - Taking the Distance Further. In CS 268: Computer Networks and CS 262A: Advanced Topics in Computer Systems. UC Berkeley, Fall 2009.
Summaries of the papers read in CS 268 Computer Networks. UC Berkeley, Fall 2009.
Matthias Vallentin and Seth Fowler. A Concurrency Model for Event-Based Network Intrusion Detection. In CS 294-33: Towards Highly-Productive Parallel Programming Languages. UC Berkeley, Spring 2009.
Matthias Vallentin, Jon Whiteaker, and Yahel Ben-David. The Gh0st in the Shell: Network Security in the Himalayas. In CS 294-28: Network Security. UC Berkeley, Spring 2009.
Matthias Vallentin. On the Evolution of Buffer Overflows. In the advanced seminar course Approaches for Operating Systems in the Future. Munich, May 2007.
Miscellaneous
Probability and Statistics Cookbook. Berkeley, 2013.
