Friday, November 13, 2009

CCS'09 paper on automatic protocol reverse-engineering

At this week's CCS conference we presented a technique for automating protocol reverse-engineering from executable programs and its application to botnet C&C protocols. This is joint work with the BitBlaze team at UC Berkeley. MIT Technology Review has published an article on our work.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

IMC '09 Paper on Characterizing Residential Broadband Traffic

Last week at IMC we presented initial work on characterizing residential broadband traffic. The paper is:

IMC '09 Paper on Calibrating Enterprise Packet Trace Measurements

Last week we presented a paper at IMC on calibrating a set of packet traces taken by simultaneously tapping multiple switch ports within a large enterprise. We present a set of techniques, the pitfalls of not calibrating such packet traces and a quite initial traffic breakdown from LBNL's enterprise network. The paper is: