Italo Dacosta
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About me

I completed my PhD in Computer Science in August 2012, under the supervision of Dr. Mustaque Ahamad and Dr. Patrick Traynor. I am now a posdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven.

 

Research interests

My research focuses on the analysis, design, optimization and evaluation of network security protocols for large-scale Internet systems such as VoIP and Web applications. In particular, I have developed more robust, efficient and scalable authentication mechanisms in this area. I am also interested in the security challenges of VoIP, web applications, mobile platforms and cloud computing and in privacy preserving technologies.

 

Publications

Journals

  • Italo Dacosta, Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Mustaque Ahamad and Patrick Traynor, Improving Authentication Performance of Distributed SIP Proxies, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 22, no.11, pp.1804-1812, Nov. 2011.

  • Italo Dacosta, Saurabh Chakradeo, Patrick Traynor and Mustaque Ahamad One-Time Cookies: Preventing Session Hijacking Attacks with Disposable Credentials, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), vol. 12, issue 1, June 2012.

Conferences

  • Italo Dacosta, Mustaque Ahamad and Patrick Traynor, Trust No One Else: Detecting MITM Attacks Against SSL/TLS Without Third-Parties, Proceedings of the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), September 2012. (Acceptance rate: 20.2%)

  • Nilesh Nipane, Italo Dacosta and Patrick Traynor, "Mix-In-Place" Anonymous Networking Using Secure Function Evaluation, Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2011. [pdf] (Acceptance rate: 18.5%)

  • Italo Dacosta and Patrick Traynor, Proxychain: Developing a Robust and Efficient Authentication Infrastructure for Carrier-Scale VoIP Networks , Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), June 2010. [pdf] (Acceptance rate: 17.0%)

  • Italo Dacosta, Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Mustaque Ahamad and Patrick Traynor, Improving Authentication Performance of Distributed SIP Proxies, Conference on Principles, Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications (IPTComm), July 2009. [pdf] (Acceptance rate: 43.0%)

  • Italo Dacosta, Neel Mehta, Evan Metrock, and Jonathon Giffin, Security analysis of an IP phone: Cisco 7960G, Conference on Principles, Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications (IPTComm), July 2008. [pdf] (Acceptance rate: 30.0%)

  • Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Arup Acharya, Mustaque Ahamad, Mudhakar Srivatsa, Italo Dacosta and Charles Wright, SERvartuka: Dynamic Distribution of State to Improve SIP Server Scalability, 28th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 2008. [pdf]

 

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