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A Survey of Automatic Protocol Reverse Engineering Approaches, Methods, and Tools on the Inputs and Outputs View

Table 6

Four divisions of reverse engineered or analyzed protocols by PFSMs approaches.

Approach, method, tool, or author Protocols analyzed or reverse engineered
TextBinaryHybridOthers (unknown/undocumented)

PEXT [16]FTPNoneNoneNone
Xiao et al. [3]HTTP, FTP, SMTPNoneNoneNone
Trifilo et al. [17]NoneTCP, DHCP, ARP, KADNoneNone
Antunes and Neves [18]FTPNoneNoneNone
ReverX [19]FTPNoneNoneNone
Veritas [20]SMTPPPLIVE, XUNLEINoneNone
Zhang et al. [21]HTTP, SNMP, ISAKMPNoneNoneNone
Laroche et al. [22]FTPDHCPNoneNone
Meng et al. [23]NoneTCP, ARPNoneNone