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International Joint Conference CISIS’12-ICEUTE´12-SOCO´12 Special Sessions pp 151–158Cite as

Investigation on Operating Systems Identification by Means of Fractal Geometry and OS Pseudorandom Number Generators

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This work demonstrates a novel way how to identify the operating systems and networking devices working with TCP / IP stack on the basis of differences in their random number generators. We also sketch possible OS identification based on fractal geometry and neural networks.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, VŠB-TUO, 17. Listopadu 15, 708 33, Ostrava, Poruba, Czech Republic

    Ivan Zelinka & Lenka Skanderova

  2. Getmore s.r.o, Prague, Czech Republic

    Filip Merhaut

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  1. , Department of Civil Engineering, University of Burgos, Campus Vena (Edif.C), C/ Francisco de Vitoria, s/n, Burgos, 09006, Spain

    Álvaro Herrero

  2. VŠB-TU Ostrava, 17. listopadu 15, Ostrava, 70833, Czech Republic

    Václav Snášel

  3. MIR Labs, Scientific Network for Innovation, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, Auburn, 98071, USA

    Ajith Abraham

  4. VŠB-TU Ostrava, 17. listopadu 15, Ostrava, 70833, Czech Republic

    Ivan Zelinka

  5. , Department of Civil Engineering, University of Burgos, Campus Vena (Edif.C), C/ Francisco de Vitoria, s/n, Burgos, 09006, Spain

    Bruno Baruque

  6. Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

    Héctor Quintián

  7. University of Coruña, Avda. 19 de febrero, s/n, Coruña, 15405 A, Spain

    José Luis Calvo

  8. y León, Pol. Ind. Villalonquéjar, Instituto Tecnológico de Castilla, Lopez Bravo 70, Burgos, 09001, Spain

    Javier Sedano

  9. Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

    Emilio Corchado

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Zelinka, I., Merhaut, F., Skanderova, L. (2013). Investigation on Operating Systems Identification by Means of Fractal Geometry and OS Pseudorandom Number Generators. In: Herrero, Á., et al. International Joint Conference CISIS’12-ICEUTE´12-SOCO´12 Special Sessions. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 189. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33018-6_15

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