DuskZone - by Dario Scarpa - Thesis, projects, exercises

This page collects and presents some works produced during my studies at the university.

Master Thesis
- Solid Angle based Ambient Obscurance in Image Space
  Design and development of a new screen space ambient occlusion technique.
  - details, documents, slides and video

Bachelor Thesis
- A library for hand-based interaction in virtual environments
  Interfacing a virtual reality glove and a tracking system with the Quest3D engine.
  - details, documents, slides and video

Interactive Virtual Environments and Videogames
- coding assignment
  - Slugs
    A 3D videogame inspired by "Worms". Developed with Ogre3D and PhysX.
    - details and video

Concurrent and Parallel Programming
- coding assignment
  - Simple MPI Ray Tracer
    Parallelization of a simple ray tracing implementation, testing many MPI features and different strategies of workload distribution.
    - details and source code

Network Security 2
- essay
  - Introduction to exploiting: Linux x86 stack buffer overflows
    Basics of software vulnerabilities exploitation, with an in-depth analysis of stack buffer overflows in Linux environments.
    - details and source code
- lab activities
  - Forensic analysis & malware removal
    Setup of a scenario to be investigated via forensic tools, and malware analysis followed up by development of a removal tool.
    - details, documents and slides

Cryptography Tools for Information Security
- coding assignment
  - CCA Encryption Tools
    Symmetric encryption and HMAC of arbitrarily big files using the OpenSSL libraries.
    - details and source code
- coding assignment
  - PKI Pedersen Commitment
    Implementation of Pedersen Commitment based on custom extensions of X.509 certificates (through the OpenSSL libraries).
    - details and source code

Programming Languages 2
- coding assignment
  - Java Tris
    Implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe in Java, with AI based on the minimax algorithm.
    - details and source code