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A multi-level framework to identify HTTPS services

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Shbair, Wazen M., Cholez, Thibault, Francois, Jerome, Chrisment, Isabelle·2016·NOMS 2016 - 2016 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium

Abstract

The development of TLS-based encrypted traffic comes with new challenges related to the management and security analysis of encrypted traffic. There is an essential need for new methods to investigate, with a proper level of identification, the increasing number of HTTPS traffic that may hold security breaches. In fact, although many approaches detect the type of an application (Web, P2P, SSH, etc.) running in secure tunnels, and others identify a couple of specific encrypted web pages through website fingerprinting, this paper proposes a robust technique to precisely identify the services run within HTTPS connections, i.e. to name the services, without relying on specific header fields that can be easily altered. We have defined dedicated features for HTTPS traffic that are used as input for a multi-level identification framework based on machine learning algorithms. Our evaluation based on real traffic shows that we can identify encrypted web services with a high accuracy.

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Authors
Shbair, W. M., Cholez, T., Francois, J., & Chrisment, I.
Affiliations
Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (FR)
Venue
NOMS 2016 - 2016 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2016-04
Pages
240-248
OpenAlex
W2469987047
Cited by
69
References
29
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1
FWCI
4.49
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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Licence
other-oa
Locations
  • IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) (publishedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web Application Security Vulnerabilities
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Keywords
HTTPS traffic, service identification, encrypted traffic analysis, TLS, machine learning features, web service classification, network security

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