Zachary DeStefano

13 papers A* 2Misc 1Journal 9Unranked 1

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	J	`jnl`	Linear*-Time Permutation Check. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. Benedikt Bünz, Jessica Chen, Zachary DeStefano
2025	J	`jnl`	NOPE: Strengthening domain authentication with succinct proofs. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. Zachary DeStefano, Jeff J. Ma, Joseph Bonneau, Michael Walfish
2025	J	`jnl`	Push-1 is PSPACE-complete, and the automated verification of motion planning gadgets. CoRR Zachary DeStefano, Bufang Liang
2025	J	`jnl`	Sum-check protocol for approximate computations. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. Dor Bitan, Zachary DeStefano, Shafi Goldwasser, Yuval Ishai, Yael Tauman Kalai, Justin Thaler
2024	A*	`conf`	NOPE: Strengthening domain authentication with succinct proofs. SOSP Zachary DeStefano, Jeff J. Ma, Joseph Bonneau, Michael Walfish
2024	Misc	`conf`	Zombie: Middleboxes that Don't Snoop. NSDI Collin Zhang, Zachary DeStefano, Arasu Arun, Joseph Bonneau, Paul Grubbs, Michael Walfish
2023	A*	`conf`	Less is more: refinement proofs for probabilistic proofs. SP Kunming Jiang, Devora Chait-Roth, Zachary DeStefano, Michael Walfish, Thomas Wies
2023	J	`jnl`	Zombie: Middleboxes that Don't Snoop. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. Collin Zhang, Zachary DeStefano, Arasu Arun, Joseph Bonneau, Paul Grubbs, Michael Walfish
2022	J	`jnl`	Less is more: refinement proofs for probabilistic proofs. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. Kunming Jiang, Devora Chait-Roth, Zachary DeStefano, Michael Walfish, Thomas Wies
2022	J	`jnl`	Multicolor Ramsey Numbers for Berge cycles. Electron. J. Comb. Zachary DeStefano, Hannah Mahon, Frank Simutis, Michael Tait
2022	J	`jnl`	zkQMC: Zero-Knowledge Proofs For (Some) Probabilistic Computations Using Quasi-Randomness. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. Zachary DeStefano, Dani Barrack, Michael Dixon
2017	J	`jnl`	Optimally Redundant, Seek-Time Minimizing Data Layout for Interactive Rendering. Vis. Comput. Jia Chen, Shan Jiang, Zachary DeStefano, Sung-Eui Yoon, Meenakshisundaram Gopi
2016	—	`conf`	CT thermometry for cone-beam CT guided ablation. Image-Guided Procedures Zachary DeStefano, Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh, Ming Li, Bradford J. Wood, Ronald M. Summers, Jianhua Yao

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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