Genome Methods Applied to Reverse-Engineering

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Genome Methods Applied to Reverse-Engineering

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 5, 2004 @03:36AM from the cross-training dept.

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."

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fp by Tobril · 2004-10-05 03:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-05 03:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Bad news Tobril, you failed it. The good news is I just saved a load of money on my car insurance.
aieeeee by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-05 03:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

aieeeee... he's discovering The Matrix... in Japan
Re:How long can this last? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-05 03:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

it's already happened... in Japan
Dupe by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-05 03:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

This is a dupe of yesterday's post.
Secret windows update handshake finally decoded! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-05 03:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

And it read "all your base belong to us"
Re:How long can this last? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-05 03:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

i heard she does car commercials... in Japan
DMCA by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-05 04:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Sweet...time to make some money! I'm gonna sue Beddoe for violating the DMCA because he is re-engineering my genes without my authorization!
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