A Survey on Methods of Automatic Protocol Reverse Engineering

• Published in: 2011 Seventh International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security pp. 685 - 689
• Main Authors: XiangDong Li, Li Chen
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.12.2011
• Subjects: binary analysis; Cryptography; Knowledge engineering; network-based; program-based; protocol; Protocols; reverse engineer; Reverse engineering; Servers; survey; Syntactics; tainted analysis

Protocol reverse engineering is necessary for many security applications, and has been an important and active research topic. This paper makes a survey on automatic protocol reverse engineering, especially on the goals, methods, tools and their achievements. The targets and obstacles in automatic p...