Welcome
I am Matthijs Koot, and this is my homepage. You can find information
about me and anything I might be working on.
About me
I'm currently employed as a PhD-student at the System and Network Engineering group at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. My research interests are privacy, security and overlay networks within the context of Virtual Laboratories for e-Science. My teaching interests include the Intrusion Detection Systems course of the MSc education in System and Network Engineering, in which I'm working together with Maarten Carels and Jaap van Ginkel. Some of my other interests are covert channels, steganography, smartcards and IT-auditing (although I have no formal training in the latter, but who knows what the future may hold).
Between August 2005 and August 2006 I was a student of the MSc program in System and Network Engineering at the Faculty of Science of the aforementioned university. In January 2006, Marc Smeets and I wrote a paper on the current state of covert channels in prevalent communication protocols for KPMG Information Risk Management. In June 2006, Richard de Jong and I were guests at CERN, and worked on the preparation of the LHC Computing Grid for MPI-based parallelism. The research reports of both projects are available for download at my now-abandoned SNE study diary.
Between August 2001 and July 2005 I was an undergraduate at the Informatics & Communication Academy in Arnhem (NL). A description of two internships from that period follows.
Between August 2003 and January 2004 I was an intern at Smartpoint,
a Dutch company specializing in smart card applications. I designed and implemented an MPCOS-EMV based smartcard access control system in Visual C++/MFC and a wrote some C for a Intel 80C251 microcontroller.
Between February 2005 and June 2005 I was an intern at Univé Verzekeringen, a Dutch insurance company. Under supervision of André Koot (who I greatly admire, but does not happen to be family of me), I performed a security quickscan of their nation-wide infrastructure, and researched the current state-of-art in IDS/IPS (alert correlation) and consolidation & analysis of (audit) logs. Deliverables included a Proof-of-Concept implementation and a research report. Its contents were partially publicized (72KB PDF) in the July 2005 journal of the Dutch Platform voor Informatie Beveiliging (PvIB) organization. My bc-thesis was nominated for Joop Bautz Security Award 2006, although that award was justly won by Cas de Bie.
Besides other things, I like to spend my time on programming and security.
Browse /docs (personal repository of some work of others, LOCKSS-style)
E.g. Dutch laws, information warfare,
biometrics, remailers, ISDN, AT command set reference, Cyphernomicon,
"Win2k load balancing"
E.g. A solution to the problem of the Dining
Philosophers (WinNT C), two solutions to the Producer-Consumer problem
(WinNT C) , a Dutch essay on wireless communication (reviews and
specs of GSM, UMTS, Bluetooth, WiFi, IrDA, DECT, WAP and GPRS),
some 68HC11 assembly and C
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