Theses
Master and PhD thesis

2013-2017 - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Title: Service-Level Monitoring of HTTPS Traffic
University: University of Lorraine, Nancy, France
Keyword: HTTPS, Security monitoring, Traffic analysis, Firewall

2006-2009 - Master of Science (Msc)

Title: A new security mechanism to perform traffic anonymity with dummy traffic synthesis
University: University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Keyword: Traffic analysis,

Conference and Journal Proceedings
Author and Co-Author

L. Trestioreanu, F. de Cristo, W. Shbair, J. Francois, D. Magoni, and R. STATE (2024), To Squelch or not to Squelch: Enabling Improved Message Dissemination on the XRP Ledger . In IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPS 2023) , IEEE, pp. 1542-1201

L. Trestioreanu, F. de Cristo, W. Shbair, J. Francois, D. Magoni, and R. STATE (2024), To Squelch or not to Squelch: Enabling Improved Message Dissemination on the XRP Ledger . In IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPS 2023) , IEEE, pp. 1542-1201

L. Trestioreanu, W. Shbair, F. Cristo, and R. State (2023), Blockly2Hooks: Smart Contracts for Everyone with the XRP Ledger and Google Blockly . In IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures (DAPPS 2023) , IEEE, pp. 145-150

L. Trestioreanu, W. Shbair, F. Cristo, and R. State (2023), XRP-NDN overlay: Improving the Communication Efficiency of Consensus-Validation based blockchains with an NDN overlay . In NOMS 2023 - 36th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium , IEEE, pp. 1-5

F. Cristo, W. Shbair, L. Trestioreanu, and R. State (2021), Self-Sovereign Identity for the Financial Sector: A Case Study of PayString Service . In IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain), IEEE, pp. 210-220

F. Cristo, W. Shbair, L. Trestioreanu, A. Malhotra and R. State (2021), Privacy-Preserving PayString Service . In IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), IEEE, pp. 210-220

W. Shbair, E. Gavrilov and R. State (2021), HSM-based Key Management Solution for Ethereum Blockchain . In IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), IEEE, pp. 1-3

R. Norvill, C. Cassanges W. Shbair, J. Hilger, A. Cullen and R. State (2020), Blockchain-based, decentralized access control for IPFS . In ASIA CCS '20: The 15th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ACM, pp. 151–160

A. Yakubov, W. Shbair, N. Khan, Ch. Medinger, J. Hilger and R. State (2020), BlockPGP: A Blockchain-based Framework for PGP Key Servers . In International Journal of Networking and Computing, IEEE, pp. 1-24

R. Norvill, M. Steichen, W. Shbair, and R. State (2019), Demo: Blockchain for the Simplification and Automation of KYC Result Sharing . In IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2019), IEEE, pp.

W. Shbair, M. Steichen, J.François and R. State (2019), BlockZoom: Large-Scale Blockchain Testbed . In IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2019), IEEE, pp.

A. Yakubov, W. Shbair, A. Wallbom, D. Sanda and R. State (2018), A Blockchain-Based PKI Management Framework . In NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, IEEE, pp. 1-6

M. Steichen, B. Fiz, R. Norvill, W. Shbair, and R. State (2018), Blockchain-based, decentralized access control for IPFS . In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData), IEEE, pp. 1499-1506

W. Shbair, M. Steichen, J.François and R. State (2018), Blockchain Orchestration and Experimentation Framework: A Case Study of KYC . In NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, IEEE, pp. 1-6

W. Shbair, Th. Cholez, J. Francois and I. Chrisment (2016), Improving SNI-based HTTPS Security Monitoring . In IEEE International Workshop on Security Testing and Monitoring co-located with IEEE ICDCS 2016, IEEE, pp.

W. Shbair, Th. Cholez, J. Francois and I. Chrisment (2018), A multi-level framework to identify HTTPS services . In IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), IEEE, pp. 240-248

W. Shbair, Th. Cholez, and I. Chrisment (2016), Efficiently bypassing SNI-based HTTPS filtering . In IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM 2015), IEEE, pp.

W. Shbair, A. Bashandy, S. Shaheen (2009), A New Security Mechanism to Perform Traffic Anonymity with Dummy Traffic Synthesis . In 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, IEEE, pp. 405-411