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Some random food for thought:
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1) If you run p0f on any reasonably popular server, you will probably see quite
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a few systems that seem to be leaking memory in TCP headers (e.g. ACK number
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or second timestamp set on SYN packets, URG pointer without URG flag, etc).
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You will also see HTTP traffic with non-stripped Proxy-Authorization headers
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and other hilarious abnormalities.
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Unfortunately, pinpointing the sources of many of these leaks is pretty hard;
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they often trace to proprietary corporate proxies and firewalls, and unless
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it's *your* proxy or firewall, you won't be finding out more. If you wish to
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put some investigative effort into this, there are quite a few bugs waiting
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to be tracked down, though :-)
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2) After some hesitation, I decided *against* the inclusion of encrypted traffic
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classification features into p0f. Timing, packet size, and direction
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information lets you, for example, reliably differentiate between interactive
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SSH sessions and SFTP uploads or downloads; automated and human password
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entry attemps; or failed and successful auth.
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The same goes for SSL: you can tell normal HTTPS browsing from file uploads,
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from attempts to smuggle, say, PPP over SSL. In the end, however, it seems
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like stretch to cram it into p0f; one day, I might improve my ancient 'fl0p'
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tool, instead:
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http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/soft/fl0p-devel.tgz
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