While in computer networks the number of possible protocol encapsulations is growing day after day, network administrators face ever increasing difficulties in selecting accurately...
Luigi Ciminiera, Marco Leogrande, Ju Liu, Fulvio R...
FFPF is a network monitoring framework designed for three things: speed (handling high link rates), scalability (ability to handle multiple applications) and flexibility. Multiple...
Herbert Bos, Willem de Bruijn, Mihai-Lucian Criste...
—Rule-based filters are sequences of rules formed of a condition and a decision. Rules are applied sequentially up to the first fulfilled condition, whose matching decision de...
When packet filtering is used as a security mechanism, different routers may need to cooperate to enforce the desired security policy. It is difficult to ensure that they will d...
This paper describes a mechanism by which an operating system kernel can determine with certainty that it is safe to execute a binary supplied by an untrusted source. The kernel r...