Steve DiBenedetto

About Me

I am a Computer Science PhD student at Colorado State University. I am a member of the Network and Security Group working under professors Dan Massey and Christos Papadopoulos.

My research interests include security in information-centric networks (ICNs), network measurements, and inter-domain routing policies. Recently, I co-developed a Tor-like onion routing application (ANDaNA) for the CCNx platform.

Education

PhD Computer Science (Fall 2008 - Present)

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Co-advisers: Dr. Daniel Masey and Dr. Christos Papadopoulos

M.C.Sc. Computer Science (Fall 2008 - Fall 2010)

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Co-advisers: Dr. Daniel Massey and Dr. Christos Papadopoulos

B.Sc. Computer Science (Fall 2005 - Spring 2008)

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Publications

• "Behavior of DNS Top Talkers, a .com/.net View," Eric Osterweil, Danny McPherson, Steve DiBenedetto, Christos Papadopoulos, Dan Massey, 13th Passive and Active Measurement conference (PAM 2012), March 2012.
• "ANDaNA: Anonymous Named Data Networking Application," Steven DiBenedetto, Paolo Gasti, Gene Tsudik and Ersin Uzun, 19th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2012), February 2012.
• "Routing Policies in Named Data Networking," Steve DiBenedetto, Christos Papadopoulos, Daniel Massey, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Information-Centric Networking (ICN 2011) (in conjunction with SIGCOMM 2011), August 2011.
• "Fingerprinting Custom Botnet Protocol Stacks," Steve DiBenedetto, Kaustubh Gadkari, Nicholas Diel, Andrea Steiner, Dan Massey and Christos Papadopoulos, Sixth Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec 2010) (in conjunction with ICNP 2010), October 2010.
• "Dynamics of RIB Usage at an Edge Router (Poster)," Kaustubh Gadkari, Steve DiBenedetto, Dan Massey and Christos Papadopoulos, 18th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2010), October 2010.
• "Scalable Simulation of Complex Network Routing Policies," Andrew I. Stone and Steven DiBenedetto and Michelle Mills Strout and Daniel Massey, The Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF), May 2010.
• "Simulating Internet Scale Topologies With Metarouting," Steve DiBenedetto and Andrew I. Stone and Michelle Mills Strout and Daniel Massey, Technical Report CS-10-103 Colorado State University, March 2010.
• "Analyzing the Aftermath of the McColo Shutdown," DiBenedetto S., Massey D., Papadopoulos C., Walsh P., Workshop on Trust and Security in the Future Internet, (FIST'09) (in conjunction with SAINT 2009), Seattle, WA, July 2009.
• "V-Trust: An Implementation of Trust," DiBenedetto S., Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO., April 2007.

Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant (Fall 2012 - Present)

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

• Developing and teaching recitations for introductory course for Computer Science.

Graduate Research Assistant (Fall 2008 - Present)

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

• Evaluating content pollution defenses for information-centric networks (ICNs).
• Co-developed metarouting-based routing simulator.
• Studied effects on spam from the shutdown of the McColo botnet.

CCNx Project Intern (Summer 2011)

Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA

• Developed an anonymity application (ANDaNA) for the open source Content-Centric Networking (CCNx) project.
• Disseminated research to networking community through peer-reviewed publication.