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Genome Methods Applied to Reverse-Engineering
L1TH10N writes "Wired news has an article on a truely innovative way of analysing network protocol reverse-engineering. Marshall Beddoe, a security analyst, is using algorithms used in bioinformatics to analyse closed-source and secret network protocols which he calls "Protocol Informatics".According to Beddoe, network conversations are full of "junk" -- usually the actual data being sent -- which interferes with the analysis of the occasional command sequence that controls what to do with that junk. This has parrallels with Bioinformatics that has to deal with a similar problem of finding known DNA sequences separated by long gaps of unknown data. Biologists have devised complex algorithms to discover whether DNA sequences are descended from the same ancestors by comparing the genetic differences with the known mutation rates of certain DNA components. Beddoe applied the same principles to mutating network conversations of evolving network protocols."
I guess we are on our way to finding global laws for everything :)
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reverse-engineering methods applied to genome
Perhaps these techniques can be applied to the never-ending task of creating an accurate converter for MS Word .doc-uments?
Yes, simple document conversion is possible but until 100% accuracy is possible the race is not won.
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Microsoft will finally be able to figure out what is happening in their own network protocols!
Of course, this is illegal in the US. No reverse engineering allowed
My email addy? should be easy enough.
I'd just grep the stream and be done with it.
Gary Larson has previously documented this phenomenon: http://home.earthlink.net/~grleone/funny/farside/g inger.gif
Didn't realize the human Genome could be used as a hammer...