Elham Vaziripour

14 papers A* 2A 3C 1Misc 1Journal 3Unranked 4

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2021	J	`jnl`	Secure Messaging Authentication Ceremonies Are Broken. IEEE Secur. Priv. Amir Herzberg, Hemi Leibowitz, Kent E. Seamons, Elham Vaziripour, Justin Wu, Daniel Zappala
2019	—	`conf`	"Something isn't secure, but I'm not sure how that translates into a problem": Promoting autonomy by designing for understanding in Signal. SOUPS @ USENIX Security Symposium Justin Wu, Cyrus Gattrell, Devon Howard, Jake Tyler, Elham Vaziripour, Daniel Zappala, Kent E. Seamons
2019	J	`jnl`	A Usability Study of Four Secure Email Tools Using Paired Participants. ACM Trans. Priv. Secur. Scott Ruoti, Jeff Andersen, Luke Dickinson, Scott Heidbrink, Tyler Monson, Mark O'Neill, Ken Reese, Brad Spendlove, Elham Vaziripour, Justin Wu, Daniel Zappala, Kent E. Seamons
2019	A*	`conf`	I Don't Even Have to Bother Them!: Using Social Media to Automate the Authentication Ceremony in Secure Messaging. CHI Elham Vaziripour, Devon Howard, Jake Tyler, Mark O'Neill, Justin Wu, Kent E. Seamons, Daniel Zappala
2018	—	`conf`	Action Needed! Helping Users Find and Complete the Authentication Ceremony in Signal. SOUPS @ USENIX Security Symposium Elham Vaziripour, Justin Wu, Mark O'Neill, Daniel Metro, Josh Cockrell, Timothy Moffett, Jordan Whitehead, Nick Bonner, Kent E. Seamons, Daniel Zappala
2017	A	`conf`	Is that you, Alice? A Usability Study of the Authentication Ceremony of Secure Messaging Applications. SOUPS Elham Vaziripour, Justin Wu, Mark O'Neill, Jordan Whitehead, Scott Heidbrink, Kent E. Seamons, Daniel Zappala
2016	A*	`conf`	"We're on the Same Page": A Usability Study of Secure Email Using Pairs of Novice Users. CHI Scott Ruoti, Jeff Andersen, Scott Heidbrink, Mark O'Neill, Elham Vaziripour, Justin Wu, Daniel Zappala, Kent E. Seamons
2016	C	`conf`	A case study of a systematic attack design method for critical infrastructure cyber-physical systems. ACC David Grimsman, Vasu Chetty, Nathan Woodbury, Elham Vaziripour, Sandip Roy, Daniel Zappala, Sean Warnick
2016	A	`conf`	Analyzing the Political Sentiment of Tweets in Farsi. ICWSM Elham Vaziripour, Christophe G. Giraud-Carrier, Daniel Zappala
2016	A	`conf`	Condensing Steam: Distilling the Diversity of Gamer Behavior. Internet Measurement Conference Mark O'Neill, Elham Vaziripour, Justin Wu, Daniel Zappala
2016	—	`conf`	Social Authentication for End-to-End Encryption. WAY@SOUPS Elham Vaziripour, Mark O'Neill, Justin Wu, Scott Heidbrink, Kent E. Seamons, Daniel Zappala
2015	J	`jnl`	Johnny and Jane: Analyzing Secure Email Using Two Novice Users. CoRR Scott Ruoti, Jeff Andersen, Scott Heidbrink, Mark O'Neill, Elham Vaziripour, Justin Wu, Daniel Zappala, Kent E. Seamons
2014	—	`conf`	Vulnerability analysis for distributed and coordinated destabilization attacks. CDC Vasu Chetty, Nathan Woodbury, Elham Vaziripour, Sean Warnick
2009	Misc	`conf`	Design of a Fairness and Scalable Distributed Mobile Auction. PDPTA Elham Vaziripour, Mohammad Reza Khayyambashi

Nicolò Altamura is a security engineer and computer science researcher specializing in software protection, reverse engineering, program analysis, and binary deobfuscation. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Verona, graduating with honors, and works at emproof, focusing on software protection and the challenges of analyzing and understanding compiled software.

His research explores the relationship between program analysis and code obfuscation, with particular emphasis on how software transformations affect the ability of automated tools to recover program behavior. His interests span static analysis, binary analysis, decompilation, reverse engineering, and techniques for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code.

Beyond academic research, Nicolò develops and contributes to tools for reverse engineering and software analysis. His projects include obfuscation_analysis, a Binary Ninja plugin for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code; Pocket, an obfuscator for mixed Boolean-arithmetic expressions; and ptxNinja, a tool for reverse engineering NVIDIA GPU code represented in the PTX virtual instruction set.

His research also extends to binary datasets and software evolution. In 2026, he co-authored ASSEMBLAGE-DEEPHISTORY: A Cross-Build Binary Dataset with Temporal Coverage, a research work addressing the availability of binary data across multiple software builds and points in time, supporting research into binary analysis and changes between program versions.

Across his research, engineering work, and open-source contributions, Nicolò focuses on advancing the understanding, analysis, and protection of software against increasingly sophisticated obfuscation and reverse-engineering challenges.

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