Nicholas C Weaver

Curriculum Vitae

Nicholas C Weaver
International Computer Science Institute
1947 Center St. Suite 600
Berkeley, CA 94704-1198
Phone: (510) 666-2903
Fax: (510) 666-2956
Cell: (510) 847-1675
Email: nweaver (at) icsi.berkeley.edu

Education

Ph D, University of California at Berkeley, Computer Science
Completed October 15th, 2003. Degree Conferred: December 2003
Dissertation Title: The SFRA: A Fixed Frequency FPGA Architecture
Committee: John Wawrzynek (chair), John Kubitowitz, and Steven Brenner.
Dissertation: PDF

BA, University of California at Berkeley, Astrophysics and Computer Science,
Degree Conferred: Spring 1995

Publications

Mark Allman, Christian Kreibich, Vern Paxson, Robin Sommer and Nicholas Weaver, "Principles for Developing Comprehensive Network Visibility" USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), July 2008.
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Charles Reis, Steven Gribble, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Nicholas Weaver, "Detecting In-Flight Page Changes with Web Tripwires", USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), April 2008.
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Jose Gonzalez, Vern Paxson, and Nicholas Weaver, "Shunting: A Hardware/Software Architecture for Flexible, High-Performance Network Intrusion Prevention", ACM Communication and Computer Security (CCS), October 2007.
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Mark Allman, Christian Kreibich, Vern Paxson, Robin Sommer and Nicholas Weaver, "The Strengths of Weaker Identities: Opportunistic Personas", USENIX workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), August 2007.
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Vern Paxson, Robin Sommer, and Nicholas Weaver, "An Architecture for Exploiting Multi-Core Processors to Parallelize Network Intrusion Prevention" IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, May 2007.
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Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson, and Jose Gonzalez, "The Shunt: An FPGA-Based Accelerator for Network Intrusion Prevention", ACM Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), February 2007.
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Vern Paxson, Krste Asanovic, Sarang Dharmapurikar, John Lockwood, Rumeng Pang, Robin Sommer and Nicholas Weaver, "Rethinking Hardware Support for Network Analysis and Intrusion Prevention", USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec), August 2006.
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Weidong Cui, Vern Paxson, Nicholas Weaver and Randy Katz, "Protocol-Independent Adaptive Replay of Application Dialog", Network and Distributed Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2006.
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Abishek Kumar, Vern Paxson and Nicholas Weaver, "Exploiting Underlying Structure for Detailed Reconstruction of an Internet Scale Event", ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October 2005.
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Stuart Staniford, David Moore, Vern Paxson, and Nicholas Weaver, "The Top Speed of Flash Worms", 2nd ACM Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM), 2004.
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Nicholas Weaver, Ihab Hamadeh, George Kesidis, and Vern Paxson, "Preliminary Results Using Scale-Down to Explore Worm Dynamics", 2nd ACM Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM), 2004.
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Nicholas Weaver, Dan Ellis, Stuart Staniford, and Vern Paxson, "Worms vs Perimeters: The Case for HardLANs", Hot Interconnects, 2004.
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Nicholas Weaver and Dan Ellis, "Reflections on the Witty Worm: Analyzing the Attacker". ;login: June 2004.
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Nicholas Weaver, Stuart Staniford, and Vern Paxson, "Very Fast Containment of Scanning Worms", USENIX Security Conference, 2004
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Nicholas Weaver and Vern Paxson, "A Worst-Case Worm", Workshop on Economics and Information Security(WEIS) 2004.
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Nicholas Weaver, John Hauser, and John Wawrzynek, "The SFRA: A Corner-Turn FPGA Architecture", ACM Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), February 2004.
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Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson, Stuart Staniford, and Robert Cunningham, "A Taxonomy of Computer Worms", First Workshop on Rapid Malcode (WORM), 2003.
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David Moore, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Colleen Shannon, Stuart Staniford, and Nicholas Weaver, "Inside the Slammer Worm", IEEE Magazine of Security and Privacy, August 2003.
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Nicholas Weaver, Yury Markovskiy, Yatish Patel, and John Wawrzynek, "Post Placement C-slow Retiming for the Xilinx Virtex FPGA", 11th ACM Symposium of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), 2003.
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Vern Paxson, Stuart Staniford, and Nicholas Weaver, "How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time", Usenix Security Symposium, August 2002.
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Nicholas Weaver and John Wawrzynek, "A Comparison of the AES Candidates Amenability to FPGA Implementation", The Third Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Candidate Conference, 2000.
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Michael Chu, Nicholas Weaver, Kolja Sulimma, Andre DeHon, and John Wawrzynek, "Object Oriented Circuit Generators in Java", IEEE Symposium on Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 1998
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Book Chapters

Nicholas Weaver, Stuart Staniford, and Vern Paxson, "Very Fast Containment of Scanning Worms, Revisited", from Malware Detection, edited by Mihai Christodorescu, Somesh Jha, Douglas Maughan, Dawn Song, and Cliff Wang, Published by Springer/Verlag
Copyright 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-32720-4, Pages 113-145

Nicholas Weaver, "Chapter 18: Retiming, Repipelining, and C-slow retiming", from Reconfigurable Computing: The Theory and Practice of FPGA-Based Computing, edited by Scott Hauck and Andre DeHon, Published by Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier.
Copyright 2007, ISBN 978-0123705228, Pages 383-400

Posters

Nicholas Weaver and John Wawrzynek, "The Effects of Datapath Placement and C-slow Retiming on Three Computational Benchmarks", IEEE Symposium on Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), May 2002.
Original paper in PDF

Nicholas Weaver and John Wawrzynek, "Corner Turning FPGA: Motivation and Routing", 9th ACM Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), 2001.
Original paper in PDF

Web Publishing and Technical Reports

Weidong Cui, Vern Paxson and Nicholas Weaver, "GQ: Realizing a System to Catch Worms in a Quarter Million Places", ICSI Technical Report TR-06-004, September 2006.
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David Moore, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Colleen Shannon, Stuart Staniford, and Nicholas Weaver, "The Spread of the Sapphire/Slammmer Worm",
http://www.caida.org/publications/papers/2003/sapphire/sapphire.html.
A revised version appeared in the August 2003 IEEE Magazine on Security and Privacy.

Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson, Stuart Staniford, and Robert Cunningham. "Large Scale Malicious Code: A Research Agenda". DARPA sponsored report. 2003
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Nicholas Weaver and John Wawrzynek, "A High Performance, Compact Rijndael (AES) Core for Virtex FPGAs",
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Nicholas Weaver, "Warhol Worms, the Potential for Very Fast Internet Plagues", 2001
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Tutorials

Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Geoff Voelker, and Nicholas Weaver, "Understanding and Addressing the Threat of Internet Worms", Usenix Security Conference August 2006.

Dan Ellis and Nicholas Weaver, "The Worm and Virus Threat", Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2003 and December 2004.

Teaching Experience

Instructor
Summer 1998, UC Berkeley, Computer Science 61C: Machine Structures.
Fall 1997, UC Berkeley, Computer Science 198: Special Topics, A Survey of Computer Science.

Teaching Assistant
Spring 2001, UC Berkeley, Computer Science 164: Programming languages and Compilers
Fall 1996, UC Berkeley, Computer Science 150: Digital Design
Fall 1995, UC Berkeley, Computer Science 169: Software Engineering
Spring 1995, UC Berkeley, Computer Science 150: Digital Design

Professional Activities

Program Co-Chair:
NPSec 2005

Program Committe Memer:
NDSS 2009
CCS 2008
CSET 2008
FPL 2008
NDSS 2008
WWW 2008 Security Track
ACNS 2008
CSAW 2007
CCS 2007
NDSS 2006
FPGA 2005
NDSS 2005

Professional Experience

International Computer Science Institute, Graduate Student Researcher (September 2003 to October 2003), Postdoctoral/Staff Researcher (November 2003 - present). Developing techniques to simulate, analyze, detect, and respond to worms, network attacks, network security, and related issues.

Silicon Defense, Summer 2002 to February 2003 (part time). Researcher, developing techniques to counter worms and other forms of widespread malicious code.

Lawrence Berkeley Labs, Summer 1994. Summer Student, developing parallel implementations and visualization tools for DNA and Protein Sequence Matching