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BAL's Personal Domain and Home Page

Welcome to www.farcaster.com, my permanent home on the Web. Currently I'm a Software Architect working in the Office of the CTO at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA.  Previously I was the Development Lead for .NET Framework Security, and before joining Microsoft and moving to Seattle I was a member of the (now-defunct) Public Policy Research Department at AT&T Laboratories--Research in Florham Park, NJ. Before that, I was a graduate student in the Project on Mathematics and Computation at the MIT AI Lab.

My research interests include cryptography, automated resource discovery, and the interactions between various legal regimes and the network.

A (slightly outdated) copy of my CV can be found here.

Current Program Committees

• DRM 2008 and DIM 2008 (in conjunction with CCS 2008)

Full list of past program committee assignments

Books

Brian A. LaMacchia, Sebastian Lange, Matthew Lyons, Rudi Martin and Kevin T. Price.  .NET Framework Security.  Addison Wesley Professional: New York, April 2002.  (ISBN 067232184X) The definitive reference guide to the Microsoft .NET Framework security system.  Order this book from Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.

• Brian A. LaMacchia, Kristin Lauter and Anton Mityagin. Stronger Security of Authenticated Key Exchange. Proceedings of ProvSec2007.

• Barbara L. Fox and Brian A. LaMacchia. Encouraging recognition of fair uses in DRM systems. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 46, No. 4 (April 2003), 74-83.

• Brian A. LaMacchia, Key Challenges in DRM: An Industry Perspective, Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management, J. Feigenbaum, ed., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2696, Springer-Verlag, NY (2003), to appear.

• Barbara L. Fox and Brian A. LaMacchia, Online Certificate Status Checking in Financial Transactions: The Case for Re-issuance, Advances in Cryptology: Proceedings of Financial Cryptography '99, M. Franklin, ed., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1648, Springer-Verlag, NY (1999), 104-117.

• Barbara L. Fox and Brian A. LaMacchia, Cooperative Security: A Model for the New Enterprise, Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE '98), Stanford, CA, June 1998, 314-319.

• Barbara L. Fox and Brian A. LaMacchia, Certificate Revocation: Mechanics and Meaning, Advances in Cryptology: Proceedings of Financial Cryptography '98, R. Hirschfeld, ed., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1465, Springer-Verlag, NY (1998), 158-164.

• Lorrie Faith Cranor and Brian A. LaMacchia. Spam! Communications of the ACM, Vol. 41, No. 8 (Aug. 1998), 74-83.

• Yang-Hua Chu, Joan Feigenbaum, Brian LaMacchia, Paul Resnick and Martin Strauss, REFEREE: Trust Management for Web Applications, Proceedings of the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference, Santa Clara, CA, April 1997.  Reprinted in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 29 (1997), 953-964.

• Brian A. LaMacchia, The Internet Fish Construction Kit, Proceedings of the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference, Santa Clara, CA, April 1997. Reprinted in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 29 (1997), 1237-1248.

• Brian A. LaMacchia, Internet Fish, Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Elect. Eng. and Comp. Sci., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (1996). Also available as AI Technical Report 1579, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA (1996).

• M. J. Coster, A. Joux, B. A. LaMacchia, A. M. Odlyzko, C.-P. Schnorr and J. Stern, Improved low-density subset sum algorithms, Computational Complexity 2 (1992), 111-128. 

• M. J. Coster, B. A. LaMacchia, A. M. Odlyzko and C.-P. Schnorr, An improved low-density subset sum algorithm, Advances in Cryptology: Proceedings of Eurocrypt '91, D. W. Davies, ed., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 547, Springer-Verlag, NY (1991), 54-67.

• Brian A. LaMacchia, Basis Reduction Algorithms and Subset Sum Problems, SM Thesis, Dept. of Elect. Eng. and Comp. Sci., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (1991). Also available as AI Technical Report 1283, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, MA (1991).

• Brian A. LaMacchia and Andrew M. Odlyzko, Computation of Discrete Logarithms in Prime Fields, Designs, Codes and Cryptography 1 (1991), 47-62.

• Brian A. LaMacchia and Andrew M. Odlyzko, Solving Large Sparse Linear Systems over Finite Fields, Advances in Cryptology: Proceedings of Crypto '90, A. Menezes, S. Vanstone, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science 537, Springer-Verlag, NY (1991), 109-133.

• Brian A. LaMacchia, Precision Measurements of Chaotic Circuits, SB Thesis, Dept. of Elect. Eng. and Comp. Sci., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (1990).

• B. A. LaMacchia and J. Nieh, The Standard Map Machine, AI Memo 1165, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (1989).

• Key Challenges in DRM: An Industry Perspective, 2002 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management (invited talk), Washington, DC, November 2002.

• Policy in Public Key Infrastructures, or How Values End Up in the Code, DIMACS Workshop on Design for Values: Ethical, Social and Political Dimensions of Information Technology (position paper for invited talk), Princeton, NJ, March 1998.

• Copyright 101 for the Digital Domain, DREI '97 (invited talk), Piscataway, NJ, August 1997.

• The Internet Fish Construction Kit, Sixth International World Wide Web Conference, Santa Clara, CA, April 1997.

• Internet Fish, Thesis Defense, April 1996.

• Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown