Computer network protocols define the rules in which two entities communicate over a
network of unique hosts. Many protocol specifications are unknown, unavailable, or …

Whitebox fuzzing is a form of automatic dynamic test generation, based on symbolic
execution and constraint solving, designed for security testing of large applications …

The widespread utilization of network protocols raises many security and privacy concerns.
To address them, protocol reverse-engineering (PRE) has been broadly applied in diverse …

Protocol reverse engineering, the process of extracting the application-level protocol used
by an implementation, without access to the protocol specification, is important for many …

Application-level protocol specifications are useful for many security applications, including
intrusion prevention and detection that performs deep packet inspection and traffic …

Protocol reverse engineering is the process of extracting application-level specifications for
network protocols. Such specifications are very useful in a number of security-related …

Automatic protocol reverse-engineering is important for many security applications,
including the analysis and defense against botnets. Understanding the command-and …

Protocol reverse engineering has often been a manual process that is considered time-
consuming, tedious and error-prone. To address this limitation, a number of solutions have …

Recent work has established the importance of automatic reverse engineering of protocol or
file format specifications. However, the formats reverse engineered by previous tools have …

We propose a novel approach to infer protocol state machines in the realistic high-latency
network setting, and apply it to the analysis of botnet Command and Control (C &C) …