Publication detail

Investigation on operating systems identification by means of fractal geometry

ZELINKA, I. ZMEŠKAL, O. MERHAUT, F.

Original Title

Investigation on operating systems identification by means of fractal geometry

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

This work demonstrates a novel way on how to identify the operating systems and networking devices working with TCP/IP stack on the basis of differences in their pseudorandom number generators. Data from pseudorandom number generators of various OS are used to be visualized in its randomness in 3D space, using reconstruction method from deterministic chaos. Then fractal geometry is applied to measure fractal dimension of observed 3D clouds and compared with Euclid objects and among themselves. Interesting fractal properties are revealed and discussed in this article as well as sketch of possible OS identification based on fractal geometry and neural networks.

Keywords

Computer security, TCP/IP, operating system fingerprinting, port scanning, pseudorandom number generator, fractal geometry, neural networks

Authors

ZELINKA, I.; ZMEŠKAL, O.; MERHAUT, F.

RIV year

2015

Released

24. 12. 2014

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Location

Oxford

ISBN

1368-9894

Periodical

Logic Journal of the IGPL (online)

Year of study

22

Number

6

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages from

1

Pages to

17

Pages count

17

URL

http://jigpal.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/jzu040?ijkey=xPX8YYsujEzqqwW&keytype=ref

BibTex

@article{BUT111338,
  author="Ivan {Zelinka} and Oldřich {Zmeškal} and Filip {Merhaut}",
  title="Investigation on operating systems identification by means of fractal geometry",
  journal="Logic Journal of the IGPL (online)",
  year="2014",
  volume="22",
  number="6",
  pages="1--17",
  doi="10.1093/jigpal/jzu040",
  issn="1368-9894",
  url="http://jigpal.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/jzu040?ijkey=xPX8YYsujEzqqwW&keytype=ref"
}