Len Sassaman

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Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2013	J	`jnl`	Security Applications of Formal Language Theory. IEEE Syst. J. Len Sassaman, Meredith L. Patterson, Sergey Bratus, Michael E. Locasto
2012	J	`jnl`	A Patch for Postel's Robustness Principle. IEEE Secur. Priv. Len Sassaman, Meredith L. Patterson, Sergey Bratus
2011	J	`jnl`	Exploit Programming: From Buffer Overflows to "Weird Machines" and Theory of Computation. login Usenix Mag. Sergey Bratus, Michael E. Locasto, Meredith L. Patterson, Len Sassaman, Anna Shubina
2011	J	`jnl`	The Halting Problems of Network Stack Insecurity. login Usenix Mag. Len Sassaman, Meredith L. Patterson, Sergey Bratus, Anna Shubina
2010	—	`conf`	Ethical Guidelines for Computer Security Researchers: "Be Reasonable". Financial Cryptography Workshops Len Sassaman
2010	—	`conf`	PKI Layer Cake: New Collision Attacks against the Global X.509 Infrastructure. Financial Cryptography Dan Kaminsky, Meredith L. Patterson, Len Sassaman
2008	—	`conf`	Freezing More Than Bits: Chilling Effects of the OLPC XO Security Model. UPSEC Meredith L. Patterson, Len Sassaman, David Chaum
2008	A	`conf`	How to Bypass Two Anonymity Revocation Schemes. Privacy Enhancing Technologies George Danezis, Len Sassaman
2005	—	`conf`	The pynchon gate: a secure method of pseudonymous mail retrieval. WPES Len Sassaman, Bram Cohen, Nick Mathewson
2004	A	`conf`	Comparison Between Two Practical Mix Designs. ESORICS Claudia Díaz, Len Sassaman, Evelyne Dewitte
2003	—	`conf`	Heartbeat traffic to counter (n-1) attacks: red-green-black mixes. WPES George Danezis, Len Sassaman
2002	—	`conf`	The Promise of Privacy. LISA Len Sassaman

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.

In 2025, he co-authored Assessing the Effectiveness of the Tigress Obfuscator Against MOPSA and BinaryNinja, published at CheckMATE. The paper evaluates the effectiveness of obfuscation techniques and their impact on source-level static analysis and binary-level decompilation.

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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