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Massimiliano Pala

professor and assistant director
computer science and engineering
polytechnic institute, nyu

Six MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201
tel. (603) 369 - 9332|fax. (718) 260 - 3136
openca -at- acm -dot- org

Book Chapters

2011	Massimiliano Pala. Trust Infrastructures for the Internet. In Strategic and Practical Approaches for Information Security Governance: Technologies and Applied Solutions, IGI Global. (To Appear: 2011)

Journal Papers

2010	Massimiliano Pala and Sean W. Smith. Finding the PKI Needles in the Internet Haystack. In Journal of Computer Security, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 397-420, 2010. DOI: 10.3233/JCS-2010-0401. [ PDF \| BibTex ]
2009	Massimiliano Pala and Shreyas Cholia and Scott A. Rea and Sean W. Smith. Interoperable PKI Data Distribution in Computational Grids. In International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IJGHPC) , Volume 1, Issue 2, pages 56-73. January-March 2009. http://www.igi-global.com/ijghpc
2006	M. Pala, M. Marian, N. Moltchanova, A.Lioy, "PKI past, present and future", International Journal on Information Security, Springer Verlag, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2006, pp. 18-29, ISSN:1615-5262 (Paper) 1615-5270 (Online) [ SpringerLink \| PDF ]

Conference Papers

2010	Massimiliano Pala and Sara Sinclair and Sean W. Smith. "PorKI: Portable PKI Credentials via Proxy Certificates", In 7th European PKI Workshop on Public Key Infrastructures, Athens, Greece, September 2010. [ EuroPKI'10 ]
	Massimiliano Pala. "A Proposal for Collaborative Internet-scale trust infrastructures deployment: the Public Key System", In 9th Symposium on Identity and Trust on the Internet (IDTrust 2009), NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, April 2010. [ Portal ACM \| BibTeX ]
2009	Massimiliano Pala and Yifei Wang. "On the Usability of User Interfaces for Secure Website Authentication in Browsers", In Proceedings of the 6th European PKI Workshop: Theory and Practice, Pisa, Italy, September 2009. [ SpringerLink \| EuroPKI 2009 ]
	Massimiliano Pala and Scott A. Rea. Usable Trust Anchor Management. 8th Symposium on Identity and Trust on the Internet (IDTrust 2009), NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, April 2009. DOI: 10.1145/1527017.1527025. [ ACM Portal \| BibTeX \| EndNote ]
2008	Massimiliano Pala and Sean W. Smith. "PEACHES and Peers", In Proceedings of the 5th European PKI Workshop: Theory and Practice, volume 5057 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 223-238. Springer-Verlag, June 2008. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69485-4_16. [ SpringLink \| BibTex \| EndNote ]
	Massimliano Pala and Shreyas Cholia and Scott A. Rea and Sean W. Smith. Extending PKI Interoperability in Computational Grids. In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), pages 645-650, IEEE Computer Society, May 2008. DOI: 10.1109/CCGRID.2008.70. [ IEEE \| BibTeX ]
2007	Massimiliano Pala and Sean W. Smith, "AutoPKI: a PKI Resources Discovery System", EuroPKI-2007 - 4th European PKI Workshop, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, June 28-30, 2007, vol. 4582/2007 of LNCS (Springer-Verlag), pp. 154-169, ISBN: 978-3-540-73407-9, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73408-6 [ SpringerLink \| BibTeX \| PDF ]
2006	M.Pala, A.Lioy, "Fighting e-mail abuses: the EMPE approach", EuroPKI-2006 - 3rd European PKI Workshop, Turin, Italy, June 19-20, 2006. vol. 4043/2006 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, Springer-Verlag), pp. 130-144, ISBN: 3-540-35151-5, DOI: 10.1007/11774716_11 [ SpringerLink \| BibTeX \| PDF ]
2005	G. Ramunno, M. Pala, M. Aime, A. Lioy, "Motivations for a Theoretical Approach to WYSIWYS", CMS-2005: IFIP Int. Conf. on Communications and Multimedia Security, Salzburg (Austria), September 19-21, 2005, Vol. 3677/2005 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, Springer-Verlag), pp. 289-290, ISBN: 3-540-28791-4, ISSN: 0302-9743. DOI: 10.1007/11552055_38. [ SpringerLink \| BibTeX \| PDF ]
2004	M.Pala, M. Marian, N. Moltchanova, A. Lioy, "The EuroPKI Experience", EuroPKI-2004: First European Workshop on Public-Key Infrastructures, Samos Island (Greece), June 25-26, 2004, Vol. 3093 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, Springer-Verlag), pp. 14-27, ISBN: 978-3-540-22216-3, ISSN: 0302-9742. DOI: 10.1007/b98201. [ SpringerLink \| BibTeX \| PDF ]

Conferences and Invited Talks Material

2009	[OGF25] - M. Pala, "Generating Certificates for Grids with OpenCA 1.0.2+", CAOPS Working Group, Open Grid Forum, Catania, Italy, March 2-6, 2009
2008	[TAGPMA08] - M. Pala, "Under the OpenCA 1.0.2 Hood", 8th TAGPMA F2f Meeting, La Plata, Argentina, November 2008
	[TAGPMA07] - M. Pala, "OpenCA 1.0.0: Really ?", 7th TAGPMA Meeting, Oakland, US, April 2008
	[OGF22] - M. Pala, "iPKI Updates: OpenCA, OpenCA-NG and PKI Discovery System*", CAOPS Working Group, 22nd Open Grid Forum, Boston, US, February 25-28, 2008
2007	[TAGPMA2007] – M. Pala, "The PKI Resource Query Protocol Explained", TAGPMA Conference, Santiago, Chile, Nov 6-9, 2007
	[TAGPMA2007] – M. Pala, "OpenCA-NG: Usable PKI and PKI enabling library", TAGPMA Conference, Santiago, Chile, Nov 6-9, 2007
2006	[FOSDEM2006] – M. Pala, “Toward OpenCA's Next Generation: Technical Aspects and Insights of the New Codebase”, Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting, Brussels, Feb 25-26, 2006
	[FOSDEM2006] – M. Pala, “OpenCA OCSPD: from the O to the Daemon", OCSPD tutorial, Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting, Brussels, Feb 25-26, 2006
2005	[WSIS2005] – M. Pala, “The OpenCA Project and The EuroPKI Infrastructure", African and Arab Regional Conference on Electronic Transaction Security Digital Signature and PKI, Tunis, June 20-22, 2005

2010	Massimiliano Pala and Sara Sinclair and Sean W. Smith. "PorKI: Portable PKI Credentials via Proxy Certificates", In 7th European PKI Workshop on Public Key Infrastructures, Athens, Greece, September 2010. [ EuroPKI'10 ]
	Massimiliano Pala. "A Proposal for Collaborative Internet-scale trust infrastructures deployment: the Public Key System", In 9th Symposium on Identity and Trust on the Internet (IDTrust 2009), NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, April 2010. [ Portal ACM \| BibTeX ]
2009	Massimiliano Pala and Yifei Wang. "On the Usability of User Interfaces for Secure Website Authentication in Browsers", In Proceedings of the 6th European PKI Workshop: Theory and Practice, Pisa, Italy, September 2009. [ SpringerLink \| EuroPKI 2009 ]
	Massimiliano Pala and Scott A. Rea. Usable Trust Anchor Management. 8th Symposium on Identity and Trust on the Internet (IDTrust 2009), NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, April 2009. DOI: 10.1145/1527017.1527025. [ ACM Portal \| BibTeX \| EndNote ]
2008	Massimiliano Pala and Sean W. Smith. "PEACHES and Peers", In Proceedings of the 5th European PKI Workshop: Theory and Practice, volume 5057 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 223-238. Springer-Verlag, June 2008. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69485-4_16. [ SpringLink \| BibTex \| EndNote ]
	Massimliano Pala and Shreyas Cholia and Scott A. Rea and Sean W. Smith. Extending PKI Interoperability in Computational Grids. In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), pages 645-650, IEEE Computer Society, May 2008. DOI: 10.1109/CCGRID.2008.70. [ IEEE \| BibTeX ]
2007	Massimiliano Pala and Sean W. Smith, "AutoPKI: a PKI Resources Discovery System", EuroPKI-2007 - 4th European PKI Workshop, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, June 28-30, 2007, vol. 4582/2007 of LNCS (Springer-Verlag), pp. 154-169, ISBN: 978-3-540-73407-9, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73408-6 [ SpringerLink \| BibTeX \| PDF ]
2006	M.Pala, A.Lioy, "Fighting e-mail abuses: the EMPE approach", EuroPKI-2006 - 3rd European PKI Workshop, Turin, Italy, June 19-20, 2006. vol. 4043/2006 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, Springer-Verlag), pp. 130-144, ISBN: 3-540-35151-5, DOI: 10.1007/11774716_11 [ SpringerLink \| BibTeX \| PDF ]
2005	G. Ramunno, M. Pala, M. Aime, A. Lioy, "Motivations for a Theoretical Approach to WYSIWYS", CMS-2005: IFIP Int. Conf. on Communications and Multimedia Security, Salzburg (Austria), September 19-21, 2005, Vol. 3677/2005 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, Springer-Verlag), pp. 289-290, ISBN: 3-540-28791-4, ISSN: 0302-9743. DOI: 10.1007/11552055_38. [ SpringerLink \| BibTeX \| PDF ]
2004	M.Pala, M. Marian, N. Moltchanova, A. Lioy, "The EuroPKI Experience", EuroPKI-2004: First European Workshop on Public-Key Infrastructures, Samos Island (Greece), June 25-26, 2004, Vol. 3093 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, Springer-Verlag), pp. 14-27, ISBN: 978-3-540-22216-3, ISSN: 0302-9742. DOI: 10.1007/b98201. [ SpringerLink \| BibTeX \| PDF ]