| Publisher | Microsoft | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | 202.1KB PDF | Date added | 15 May 2007 |
| Topics | Web Protocols, Security Management, Application Development | ||
| Downloads | 88 | ||
Application-level protocol specifications are useful for many security applications, including intrusion prevention and detection that performs deep packet inspection and traffic normalization, and penetration testing that generates network inputs to an application to uncover potential vulnerabilities. However, current practice in deriving protocol specifications is mostly manual. This paper presents Discoverer, a tool for automatically reverse engineering the protocol message formats of an application from its network trace. A key property of Discoverer is that it operates in a protocol-independent fashion by inferring protocol idioms commonly seen in message formats of many application-level protocols.
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