MASCANC

Welcome to the page of Massimiliano "mascanc" Masi

History of this Site

The MasCanc.NET story, May 20, 2018

Back in 1993, MasCanc (Massi + Cance) decided with some friends (Vieri, Sergio) to build a Bullettin Board System on a Compaq 386 running RedHat 5.2. The BBS joined Fidonet (2:332/136, 2:550/33, 2:2/33), and other netwoks (Toscanet, Cybernet, PNet). After the Italian Crackdown the BBS morphed into a hosting service.

Some publications and conferences

  • H. M. Caçote, M. Masi, Using the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) at the LHC GRID, published in the (internal) CERN Bulletin, available only to CERN subscribers (I'm not a subscriber since 2006). Here I tackle the introduction of Intel's IPMI to the CERN computer center. Slides
  • M. Masi, M. Meoni, Using Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) profiles for an healthcare DataGRID based on AliEn in EMMIT 2008, Tripoli, Libya (PDF will be available). AliEn (Alice Environment) was the first working Data Grid available for public use. Here we analyzed it as data storage for IHE XDS.
  • A. Mancini, M. Masi, OpenAFS and SAML through the web: is it a good idea?, in Open AFS 2009, Rome, Italy. We presented a position paper on how to give access to AFS shares using Kerberos and SAML. The slides are available as PDF
  • M. Masi, R. Pugliese, F. Tiezzi, On secure implementation of an IHE XUA-based protocol for authenticating healthcare professionals, in Prakash, A., Gupta, I., eds.: ICISS. Volume 5905 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer (2009) pp 55- 70. In this paper we used model checking (with COWS) to analyse the IHE XUA specifications. The analysis shown an error in the specification that led to potential healthcare data breaches. PDF
  • M. Masi, R. Maurer, On the usage of SAML delegate assertions in an healthcare scenario with federated communities, in Szomszor, M., Kostkova, P., eds.: eHealth. Volume 69 of LNICST, Springer (2010) pp 212-220. In this paper we focus on a specific protocol for federating user communities using IHE XUA and the direct brokered trust model. PDF

Some posts on Medium

Blockchain and Interoperability in Healthcare, August 24, 2018

Who am I

Born in 1978. I have more than 14 years of experience in IT Security, a Ph.D. in Formal Methods applied to Computer Science, and a M.Sc. in Numerical Analysis. I have been involved as technology lead in projects in Europe, Africa, and in the United States. I am a reviewer for several journals and expert of the EU Commission. My actual fields are electonic healthcare and distributed ledger technologies. I am an active contributor of European Large Scale Pilots, both in development (in Java) and as IT Architect. I am ITIL and ISO 27000 certified. You can download my full CV. I mostly maintain only my LinkedIn profile and Facebook accounts. You can always drop me a mail.