Research Papers

• Trust No One - (1999) paper I wrote for ISPCon '99 which presented a high level view of a multilayered approach to securing a business' network infrastructure in today's increasingly hostile networked environment.
• Why Gnutella Can't Scale. No, really. - (2000) A mathematical analysis of the Gnutella architecture, finally answering once and for all why Gnutella will never be a viable solution for distributed P2P file-sharing.
• Napster and P2P: Fact and Fiction - (2001) This is a research paper I wrote, focused on the Napster Phenomenon and what factors drove the company to become as pervasive as it did.
  
  Many individuals and businesses perceive P2P to be synonymous with Napster, and several news organizations have written that P2P is what drove Napster's massive adoption. This paper attempts to dispel this still-unfounded myth by discussing more rational and applicable factors to the growth of Napster, and how they portend significant problems for any future technology that will support similar demographics.

Advisories

• wu-ftpd/proftpd overflow (alternate link) - aka the palmetto bug, this is a buffer overflow I discovered in wu-ftpd and proftpd, yielding a remote root shell through the anonymous user account.
• Accelerated-X overflow - a buffer overflow I found in the Accelerated-X Xserver giving a local root shell. I believe Chris Evans discovered this vulnerability around the same time, but my research was separate.

HOWTO's

• Sony VAIO PCG-R505JL - Installation Instructions for RedHat Linux 7.2.
• Sony VAIO PCG-Z505HS - IRDA Configuration for RedHat Linux 7.2.
• HOWTO Replace RedHat with Gentoo, Remotely over SSH

General Research

• Road Runner - probably outdated by now, I did this back in 1996 or 1997 and wrote my own linux/bsd login client for the RoadRunner Cablemodem Service offered by Time Warner Cable.
• CuteMX - might have changed since I last did this one (relatively recently). Wrote a CLI cutemx client in Perl from it.
• MediaShare - did this one in collaboration with a fellow cohort in w00w00. It's not finished at all, only useful for a really basic client. wrote a client, but decided not to give it out or do anything with it because mediarshare was so alpha it's not even worth anyone's time to finish reveng'ing the protocol.