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Daiyuu Nobori, Ph.D.
CEO of
SoftEther
Corporation
Special Employee of NTT-East
Researcher at Information-technology Promotion Agency,
Japan
Visiting Professor at University of Tsukuba
My primary research projects:
SoftEther VPN
| VPN Gate
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Biography
Summary
Dr. Daiyuu Nobori (born in Hyogo, Japan on 17 November 1984) is a software
engineer and an entrepreneur. His development and research
interests include systems software such as Virtual Private
Network (VPN), distributed systems, and security. He entered University of Tsukuba in 2003 and
started up a company, SoftEther Corporation in 2004. He acquired
a
Ph.D. degree at the Department of Computer Science,
University of Tsukuba in 2017. He has been an associate
professor at University of Tsukuba since April 2017. In SoftEther Corporation, he has
developed SoftEther VPN, a cross-platform multi-protocol VPN
program, made it public for free, and opened its source code in
2014.
Public Activities
Achievements
Research and Development
Research
and Development on Software
-
"SoftEther VPN 1.0"
Developed as a public-funding research
project of IPA (Japanese Government's Information-Technology
Agency) in 2003, Released at 17
Dec 2003 as freeware, Ended at 31 Jan 2006,
Downloads: 2,162,256
times, Unique Users: 210
thousands users (approximately). This software is for
free of charge.
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"PacketiX VPN"
Developed in SoftEther Corporation, Released as a product at
16 Dec 2005,
Trial Version Downloads: 109,549
times, Purchased
Customers: 8,141
companies, Total
Number of Users: approximately 53,314
users in Customer Companies since Dec 2005.
- "Desktop
VPN"
Developed in
SoftEther Corporation, Released as a commercial service with
Silicon Graphics, Inc at 01 Oct 2007 in Japan,
Trial Version Downloads: 259,475
times, Customers of Subscription: 16,301
accounts since Oct
2007.
- "UT-VPN"
Developed in the cooperative research
project between SoftEther Corporation and University of
Tsukuba, Releases as an open-source (GPL license) at 07
Jun 2010, Downloads: 90,131
times. This software is for free of charge.
- "EtherNext"
Developed in SoftEther Corporation, Released
as a beta at 29 Jul 2011,
Registered Accounts:
2,012
accounts. This software is currently for free of charge
because it is beta.
- "VPN Gate"
My research in University of Tsukuba. A well-known
VPN relay service. You can get through your government's
firewall to browse restricted websites, and disguise your IP
address to hide your identity while surfing the Internet.
- "SoftEther
VPN" (open source)
My research in University
of Tsukuba. SoftEther VPN Project develops and distributes
SoftEther VPN, An Open-Source Free Cross-platform
Multi-protocol VPN Program,
- "Win10Pcap"
(open source)
Win10Pcap is a new WinPcap-based
Ethernet packet capture library. Unlike original WinPcap,
Win10Pcap is compatible with the NDIS 6.x driver model. Win10Pcap works
stably with Windows 10. Win10Pcap has the
binary-compatibility with the original WinPcap DLLs. You can
run Wireshark or other WinPcap-compatible applications with
Win10Pcap by simply installing Win10Pcap DLLs, instead of
original WinPcap.
Research
and Development on Telecommunication Services
- "PacketiX.NET
Academic Experiment Online Service"
Developed in the cooperative research project between
SoftEther Corporation and University of Tsukuba, Released
at 25 Oct 2006, Registered Users: 150,810
users. This service is for free of charge because it is
academic experiment.
- "HardEther
Wide-Area Gigabit Ethernet Dedicated Line Service"
Developed in SoftEther Corporation, Service started at 01
Dec 2008, Many enterprise customers in the Tokyo
District, Either Number of Customers and Revenues
is not on disclosure.
Above data are always subjects to be refreshed to the latest status. (Except
sales performances. The result of performances will be updated once each month.)
Writings and Publications
Books
- Daiyuu Nobori:
"DirectX 8.0 3D
Action Game Programming - Know-how for Developing 3D Action
Games with DirectX", 256 pages, Engineering
Publishing Company, ISBN: 4875939094, Mar 2001.
- Daiyuu Nobori:
"Visual C++ Programming in the XP Generation -
Programming Techniques with Using Win32 APIs",
231 pages, Engineering Publishing Company, ISBN: 4875933282,
Mar 2002.
- Daiyuu Nobori:
"DirectX 9
3D Practical Programming - Know-how for Developing 3D Action
Games with DirectX", 303 pages, Engineering
Publishing Company, ISBN: 4875934165, Feb 2003.
- Yoshikuni Okawa, Fumihiko Osawa, Daiyuu Nobori, Takurou
Narita:
"DirectX 9
Practical Programming", 231
pages, Engineering Publishing Company, ISBN: 9784875934615,
Mar 2003.
- Daiyuu Nobori, Kazumi Murakami, Syun Ikejima:
"Official
Guidebook of SoftEther", 221 pages, ASCII
Corporation,
ISBN: 4756144837, Jun 2004.
- Osamu Ishida, Koichiro Seto, Shinichi Ooe, Fumitaka
Kadobayashi, Ken Sakamoto, Yoshinori Sunaga, Daiyuu Nobori,
Yukihiro Fujimoto:
"10
Gigabie Ethernet Textbook (Standard Textbook Series of
Impress)", 408 pages, Impress,
ISBN: 4844320920, Mar 2005.
Papers
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Virtual Ethernet system and
Tunneling Communication with SoftEther", The
45th Programming Symposium of Information Processing
Society of Japan pp.147-158, Jan 2004.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Internal Architectures of SoftEther",
Information Processing Society of Japan Journal of
"Information Processing", Vol.45, No.10,
pp.1057-1062, Oct 2004.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Internal Architectures of SoftEther",
Information Processing Society of Japan Papers of "The 17th
Computer System Symposium", Nov 2005.
- Daiyuu Nobori, Kozo Itano, Yasushi Shinjo, Akira Sato:
"Research of Scalable Client-Server Stream
Transmitting System", Graduation Thesis at
College of Information Science of University of Tsukuba, Feb
2007.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "A Suggestion to Promote
Development of High-Performance Telecommunication Software
in Japan", Journal of The Institute of
Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Vol.90,
No.9, pp.820-822, Sep 2007.
- Daiyuu Nobori, Kazuhiko Kato, Yasushi Shinjo, Kozo Itano,
Akira Sato, Hisashi Nakai: "A Scalable IP
Networking Test-bed System which works on PCs",
The 70th Annual National Conference of Information
Processing Society of Japan, Mar 2008.
- Daiyuu Nobori and Yasushi Shinjo:
"VPN Gate: A Volunteer-Organized Public VPN Relay System
with Blocking Resistance for Bypassing Government Censorship
Firewalls", USENIX NSDI '14, Seattle, April 3,
2014.
Academic and Industrial Conferences
Academic Societies
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Virtualization of Ethernet
and Tunneling by SoftEther", The 45th
Programming Symposium of Information Processing
Society of Japan, 09 Jan 2004.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Virtual Network System with SoftEther",
The 14th Risk Engineering Research Meeting on Department of
Risk Engineering in University of Tsukuba, 01 Jun 2004.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Special Lecture of SoftEther VPN 2.0",
The 2nd Workshop of Big Science & High Performance Network
at Japan National Agriculture and Food Research
Organization, 08 Dec 2004.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "SoftEther Virtual Networking
Technology", Symposium of Computer Science at
Graduate School of System and Information Engineering,
University of Tsukuba, 11 Mar 2005.
- Yoshiyasu Takefuji, Kentaro Ienoto, Daiyuu Nobori,
Hiroshi Morito: "IT Venture Companies Explore
Next Generation of Society", The 4th
Information Technology Forum at Information Processing
Society of Japan FIT 2005, 08 Sep 2005.
- Ikuo Takeuchi, Hidezane Kawai, Daiyuu Nobori , Kinya
Tagawa, Masaki Ikeda, Hideyuki Nakajima:
"Youth Faculties and Exploratory Software
Project", The 4th Information Technology Forum
at Information Processing Society of Japan FIT 2005, 09 Sep
2005.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Internal Architectures of SoftEther
VPN", The 17th Computer System Symposium of
Special Interest Group of System Software and Operating
System at Information Processing Society of Japan, 30 Nov
2005.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Implementation of Virtual
Internet System with Real-time Communication",
The 1st Autonomous Infrastructure System Symposium of CREST
Research Project of Japan Science and Technology Agency, 09
Jun 2006.
- Hiroshi Esaki, Daiyuu Nobori, Yutaka Kikuchi, Sukekuni
Shindo, Akira Matsushima, Yuichi Ikejiri:
"Workshop of Overlay Networking",
The 31th General Meeting of Next Generation Internet
Exchange Research Conference (distix), 18 Jul 2006.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "PacketiX VPN Software",
The 10th Workshop for Programming and Application System of
Japan Society for Software Science and Technology (SPA X),
29 Aug 2006.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Research of Scalable
Client-Server Stream Transmitting System",
Graduation Thesis at College of Information Science of
University of Tsukuba, 13 Feb 2007.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Techniques for Geeks with
Using VPN", The WIDE
Meeting 07Dec Tutorial Session (BOF1) of WIDE Project, 15
Dec 2007.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "A Scalable IP Networking
Test-bed System which works on PCs", 1Y-8 on
the Session of Network Building and Administration
Technology at the 70th National Conference of Information
Processing Society of Japan, 13 Mar 2008.
- Shuichi Tashiro, Naoyoshi Ohashi, Hisamichi Okamura,
Hiroshi Niibe, Daiyuu Nobori: "Be Careful
about Compliance with the Law When You Release New Software
- Lectures and Panel Discussions", Special
Session #2 of The 70th National Conference of Information
Processing Society of Japan, 14 Mar 2008.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "About Hacking" ,
Software Japan 2014 Award Ceremony, Information Processing
Society of Japan, 4 Feb 2014.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "About Hacking" , The
70th National Conference of Information Processing Society
of Japan, 13 Mar 2014.
- Daiyuu Nobori and Yasushi Shinjo:
"VPN Gate: A Volunteer-Organized Public VPN Relay System
with Blocking Resistance for Bypassing Government Censorship
Firewalls", USENIX NSDI '14, Seattle, April 3,
2014.
Lectures at Universities
- Daiyuu Nobori: "SoftEther VPN Virtual
Networking Technology", A Lecture for 3rd and
4th Undergraduates Grades of Tokyo Denki University, 16 Apr
2005.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Become a Manufacturer of
Software which might Spreads Globally", The
Internal Seminar at Venture Business Laboratory of Oita
University, 02 Dec 2005.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Become a Manufacturer of
Software which Spreads Globally & Internal Architectures
of PacketiX VPN 2.0", Lecture at Graduate
School of Information Science and Technology of The
University of Tokyo, 27 Jan 2006.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "A Venture Company from
University: Entrepreneuring of
SoftEther Corporation", Special
Lecture at Information Systems Engineering Course of Kochi
University of Technology, 22 Jan 2008.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Both Developing Law-layer
Software and Entrepreneuring a Venture
Company are Extraordinary Enjoyable",
01CK909 - Special Lecture for Experiment at Department of
Intelligent Interaction Technologies at Graduate School of
Systems and Information Engineering at University of
Tsukuba, 31 Jan 2008.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Showcase of SoftEther
Corporation as an University Venture Company",
The Training Meeting for University Intellectual Property
Strategy Workshop in Kanto District of Development Project
by National University Intellectual Property Headquarters,
10 Mar 2008.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Both Developing Law-layer
Software and Entrepreneuring a Venture
Company are Extraordinary Enjoyable", Lecture
at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology of
The University of Tokyo, 07 Jul 2008.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "How to bypass internet
censorship with VPN & About new 3D device technology"
, University of Tsukuba, 16 Jun 2012.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "About VPN technology & About new
3D device technology" , Global Leaders Conference,
University of Tsukuba, 7 Nov 2012.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Invitation for Joining IPA Mito
Project" , University of Tsukuba Computer Science
and Information Promotion Agency of Japan, 6 Jun 2013.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "SoftEther VPN & VPN Gate",
CSS 432 Network Design (5), Computing and Software Systems,
University of Washington Bothell, 1 April 2014.
General Lectures
- Daiyuu Nobori: "SoftEther VPN System",
IPAX Spring 2004 by IPA (Japanese Government's
Information-Technology Agency), 13 May 2005.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "How to Realize a Virtual
Network with SoftEther VPN", The General
Meeting Seminar 2004 of Japan UNIX User's Group, 21 Jul
2004.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "All About SoftEther, and
Reformation of VPN Markets",
Nikkei Communication VPN Technology Seminar by Nikkei
Business Publications Inc, 03 Sep 2004.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "All About SoftEther VPN and
User-mode Router 2.0", Nikkei Communication
VPN Technology Seminar by Nikkei Business Publications Inc,
18 Mar 2005.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "SoftEther VPN 2.0 Virtual
Network Technology", IPAX 2005 by IPA
(Japanese Government's Information-Technology Agency), 18
May 2005.
- Masaki Hagiya, Synichi Hirabayashi, Daiyuu Nobori, Reiko
Hamada, Hideyuki Watanabe:
"How to Create an Unique and Excellent Software",
IPA (Japanese Government's Information-Technology Agency)
Panel Discussion of IPAX 2005, 19 May 2005.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "VPN - Coexistence of both
Convenience and Security", The Special Session
at Security Pavilion in INTEROP TOKYO 2005, 08 Jun 2005.
- Ryota Motobayashi, Sukekuni Shindo, Masaya Norifusa,
Daiyuu Nobori: "VPN Deep Comparisons - From
IP-VPN to SoftEther", The Conference Workshop
W19 at INTEROP TOKYO 2005, 10 Jun 2005.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "How to Create an Internet
Technology Spread Globally from Japan", Nikkei
Communication 20th Anniversary Forum by Nikkei Business
Publications Inc, 20 Oct 2005.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Showcase of Entrepreneuring
by a Student Developer", JavaOne Japan Education &
Research Conference by Sun Microsystems, 03 Nov 2005.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "The Whole Features of VPN
2.0", Plathome Seminar at Akihabara, 18 Nov
2005.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Objective of SoftEther
Corporation as a Tsukuba-University-Venture",
The 9th Tsukuba IT Forum Conference, 15 Dec 2005.
- Haruhisa Ishida, Daiyuu Nobori: "Prof.
Haruhisa Ishida and Daiyuu Nobori: Internet Solutions in
Future", The 1st-Year Anniversary Forum of
Akihabara Cross-field, 09 Mar 2006.
- Akiko Yamazaki, Daiyuu Nobori, Yasuyuki Yamaoka,
Masayoshi Takasugi, Tatsuhiko Tanaka: "What is
Necessary in the IT Industry Right Now?",
Microsoft The Student Day 2006 by Microsoft Corporation, 31
Mar 2006.
- Ryota Motobayashi, Sukekuni Shindo, Masaya Norifusa,
Daiyuu Nobori: "VPN Deep Comparisons - From IP-VPN to
PacketiX (SoftEther)", The Conference Workshop
W13 at INTEROP TOKYO 2005, 06 Jun 2006.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "The Past Progesss of Development
of SoftEther VPN as an Exploratory Software Project, and
Present Progress of Development of Business",
IPA Exploratory Software Project Recruiting Seminar by IPA
(Japanese Government's Information-Technology Agency) and
University of Tsukuba, 07 Sep 2006.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "The Next-Generation Layer-2 VPN
Software: PacketiX VPN 2.0", The Ceremony of
The Software Product of the Year 2006 Award by IPA (Japanese
Government's Information-Technology Agency), 24 Oct 2006.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "A Solaris 10 Compatible VPN: PacketiX",
The Seminar for Latest Update Release of Solaris 10 11/06 by
Sun Microsystems, 24 Jan 2007.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Looking Back of Past Two
Years of SoftEther Corporation and Prospects of PacketiX in
Future", The 2nd-Year Anniversary Forum of
Akihabara Cross-field, 08 Mar 2007.
- Ryota Motobayashi, Sukekuni Shindo, Masaya Norifusa,
Daiyuu Nobori: "Implementation,s Operations and
Applications of Latest VPNs", The Conference
Workshop W09 at INTEROP TOKYO 2007, 22 Jun 2007.
- Ikuo Takeuchi, Hidekazu Kondo, Kinya Tagawa, Daiyuu
Nobori: "Super-Creators Visited Silicon Valley
- The Report of Tours in United States", IPA
(Japanese Government's Information-Technology Agency) Form
2007 Software Development Session #1, 30 Oct 2007.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "PacketiX VPN 2.0",
The 5th Information Technology Seminar by Softopia Japan of
Gifu Prefectual Government, 27 Feb 2008.
- Ryota Motobayashi, Sukekuni Shindo, Masaya Norifusa,
Daiyuu Nobori: "Implementations, Operations and
Applications of Latest VPNs", The Conference
Workshop W08 at INTEROP TOKYO 2008, 09 Jun 2008.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "How to trace criminals who are
abusing VPN Gate" , Workshop of National Police
Agency, Kasumigaseki Police Agency Government Building, 23
Aug 2013.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "About VPN Gate & How to trace
criminals who are abusing VPN Gate & About Hacking"
, Internal Workshop, National Diet Library of Japan, 26 Feb
2014.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "About Hacking" , IPA
Security Camp 2014 Special Class, 12 Aug 2014.
- Daiyuu Nobori: "Introduction of the Architecture
of Great Firewall of China (GFW) & VPN Gate & Tracing a
criminal who abused VPN Gate with the Australian policy
agency & How to protect governmental computer systems
against hacking & Security analysis on the physical layer of
NTT FLET'S and carrier Ethernet services" ,
National Information Security Center of Japan, 18 Sep 2014.
Awards
- "Official Certification of Super-Creator / Genius
Programmer Award", Japanese Government's
Information-Technology Agency, Sep 2004.
- "Yamanouchi Encouragement Award of The 45th
Programming Symposium", Information Processing Society of
Japan, Jan 2005.
- "The 15th Nikkei BP Technology Award 'Special
Award' ", Nikkei Business Publications, Inc., Apr 2005.
- "POWER PUSH AWARD 'Software Category Award' ",
ASCII Corporation, Apr 2006.
- "MM Research Institute Grand Prix 2006",
MM Research Institute, Ltd., Jul 2006.
- "Software Product of The Year 2006 Grand Prix",
Japanese Government's Information-Technology Agency, Oct 2006.
- "The 2nd Tsukuba Venture Grand Prix - Tsukuba
Entrepreneur Award", Nonprofit Organization Tsumugi
Tsukuba, Oct 2006.
- "University of Tsukuba President Award",
University of Tsukuba, Mar 2007.
- "Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award -
Information Technology Promoting Contribution Testimonial in the
2007 fiscal year", the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and
Transport, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, the
Ministry of Finance Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications,
the Ministry of Economy, the Trade and Industry and the Cabinet
Office of Japanese Government, Oct 2007.
- "Encouragement Award of The 70th National Conference of
Information Processing Society of Japan", Information
Processing Society of Japan, Jul 2008.
- "DREAM GATE AWARD 2008 support by HP WINNER (Grand-Prix)",
Venture Enterprise Center Foundation, Japan Hewlett-Packard Company,
Japan American Express Company and Japan Airlines Co., Ltd., Oct
2008.
- "Software Japan Award 2014", Information
Processing Society of Japan, Feb 2014.
Cooperative Research Projects
Daiyuu has / had participated in following research projects.
Name of
Project |
Period |
Japan Science and
Technology Agency CREST
Project: "Implementation of Autonomous Infrastructure
System" (Prof. Kazuhiko Kato) |
From Jul 2005 To Mar 2008 |
Development Project of Secure VM: 'BitVisor' by
National Information Security Center of the Cabinet Office of
Japan (Prof. Kazuhiko Kato) |
From Jul 2006 To Mar 2009 |
TARA Project at University of Tsukuba: "Implementation
of Sustainable Computing System" (Prof. Kazuhiko Kato) |
From Apr 2007 |
SCOPE Research
Project of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications:
"Research and Development of Dependable Autonomous Cloud
Computing Infrastructure" (Prof. Kazuhiko Kato) |
From Apr 2009 |
Previous Activities /
Roles
Daiyuu has / had participated in following activities / roles.
Name of Activities / Roles |
Period |
A Undergraduate
Student of College of Information Science of University of
Tsukuba |
From Apr 2003 To Mar 2007 |
A Staff of School
Festival Executive Committee, University of Tsukuba |
From Apr 2003 To Jul 2003 |
The Chief Researcher of SoftEther Project (1st), Tsukuba
Industrial Liaison and Cooperative Research Center |
From Jul 2005 To Mar 2009 |
An Advisor of
Order-made Pharmacy Corporation |
From Apr 2007 To Oct 2008 |
A Special
Researcher for National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology |
From Jan 2008 To Mar 2009 |
The Chief Researcher of SoftEther Project (2nd), Tsukuba
Industrial Liaison and Cooperative Research Center |
From May 2011 To Mar 2014 |
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