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Curriculum Vitae (English)
Junior Researcher at the Distributed Systems Group, INESC-ID
(Final Year student) BSc Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico

Contact:   
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    pedro.botto[insert_at_here]tagus.ist.utl.pt
    +351 967770831


Interests

Information Security in general, wireless network security in particular.
I also have broad interests in computer science - Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Distributed Computing, Algorithms, Sustainable Computing.

Research

Currently i'm a protocol tester for the Peervibes project. My job is to analyse how different broadcast protocols behave in Modelnet.


Software

UWC - Unicode Wordlist Creator
This program receives a text file and creates a wordlist from it, using a minimum word size (default is 8) and a maximum word size (default is 63). This is done using ICU (unicode library for C) to guarantee compatability with any language.
The purpose of all this is to create wordlists for WPA cracking in any language with full Unicode capability.
It still has a few bugs, but it works nicely. I decided to make this because there was no free wordlist creator for Linux with respect for Unicode.

There is a bash script included (lwc.sh) which processes Latin languages and extracts all the words from up to 9 pdf files at a time, runs them through UWC and then makes a duplicate of all the words withouth punctuation characters. The final list is a concatenation of all the words (between 8 and 63 characters) and their duplicates withouth punctuation. You still must have Unicode support in the terminal, but this is available out of the box in most major Linux distributions nowadays.

Download (v0.25 - 3/11/2008)


Bio

I was born in Coimbra, Portugal on the 1st of March 1984. I decided to move to Lisboa and entered Instituto Superior Técnico in 2004, where i'm finishing my BSc.
I've worked as a network administrator, computer technician and call centre operator.
Personal Interests:  Computers, Ecology and Sustainability, International Politics, Macroeconomics
Music:   Techno, Progressive, House, Drum n Bass, Reggae, Jazz (all kinds of)
Sports:  Taekwondo
Favourite Shows:   South Park, Trailer Park Boys, Family Guy