Owen S. Hofmann

16 papers A* 10A 2B 1Journal 2Unranked 1

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2016	A*	`conf`	Sego: Pervasive Trusted Metadata for Efficiently Verified Untrusted System Services. ASPLOS Youngjin Kwon, Alan M. Dunn, Michael Z. Lee, Owen S. Hofmann, Yuanzhong Xu, Emmett Witchel
2014	—	`conf`	Application-Defined Decentralized Access Control. USENIX ATC Yuanzhong Xu, Alan M. Dunn, Owen S. Hofmann, Michael Z. Lee, Syed Akbar Mehdi, Emmett Witchel
2013	A*	`conf`	InkTag: secure applications on an untrusted operating system. ASPLOS Owen S. Hofmann, Sangman Kim, Alan M. Dunn, Michael Z. Lee, Emmett Witchel
2012	A*	`conf`	Flat Datacenter Storage. OSDI Edmund B. Nightingale, Jeremy Elson, Jinliang Fan, Owen S. Hofmann, Jon Howell, Yutaka Suzue
2012	A	`conf`	Improving server applications with system transactions. EuroSys Sangman Kim, Michael Z. Lee, Alan M. Dunn, Owen S. Hofmann, Xuan Wang, Emmett Witchel, Donald E. Porter
2011	A*	`conf`	Cloaking Malware with the Trusted Platform Module. USENIX Security Symposium Alan M. Dunn, Owen S. Hofmann, Brent Waters, Emmett Witchel
2011	A*	`conf`	Ensuring operating system kernel integrity with OSck. ASPLOS Owen S. Hofmann, Alan M. Dunn, Sangman Kim, Indrajit Roy, Emmett Witchel
2010	A*	`conf`	Defeating Vanish with Low-Cost Sybil Attacks Against Large DHTs. NDSS Scott Wolchok, Owen S. Hofmann, Nadia Heninger, Edward W. Felten, J. Alex Halderman, Christopher J. Rossbach, Brent Waters, Emmett Witchel
2010	B	`conf`	Is transactional programming actually easier? PPoPP Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Emmett Witchel
2009	A*	`conf`	Maximum benefit from a minimal HTM. ASPLOS Owen S. Hofmann, Christopher J. Rossbach, Emmett Witchel
2009	A*	`conf`	Operating systems transactions. SOSP Donald E. Porter, Owen S. Hofmann, Christopher J. Rossbach, Alexander Benn, Emmett Witchel
2008	J	`jnl`	MetaTM/TxLinux: Transactional Memory for an Operating System. IEEE Micro Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E. Porter, Owen S. Hofmann, Bhandari Aditya, Emmett Witchel
2008	J	`jnl`	TxLinux and MetaTM: transactional memory and the operating system. Commun. ACM Christopher J. Rossbach, Hany E. Ramadan, Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E. Porter, Bhandari Aditya, Emmett Witchel
2007	A	`conf`	Is the Optimism in Optimistic Concurrency Warranted? HotOS Donald E. Porter, Owen S. Hofmann, Emmett Witchel
2007	A*	`conf`	Meta ISCA Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E. Porter, Owen S. Hofmann, Bhandari Aditya, Emmett Witchel
2007	A*	`conf`	TxLinux: using and managing hardware transactional memory in an operating system. SOSP Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E. Porter, Hany E. Ramadan, Bhandari Aditya, Emmett Witchel

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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