Minimum description length principles for detection and classification of FTP exploits

Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 473-479

  Evans, Scott ^a   Barnett, Bruce ^a   Bush, Stephen F ^a   Saulnier, Gary J ^b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION ALGORITHM; FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOLS; INFORMATION ASSURANCE; PROTOCOL REDUNDANCY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA COMPRESSION; DATA TRANSFER; HEURISTIC METHODS; REDUNDANCY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 27744583004     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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