Discoverer: Automatic Protocol Reverse Engineering from Network Traces

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A Survey of Payload-Based Traffic Classification Approaches (2014, background): “Another approach for automatic protocol reverse engineering was proposed in [45].”
Prospex: Protocol Specification Extraction (2009, background): “A number of approaches [11]–[14] have been presented that use network traffic as input.”
TaintScope: A Checksum-Aware Directed Fuzzing Tool for Automatic Software Vulnerability Detection (2010, methodology): “Many protocol reverser engineering tools (such as Prospex [31], Tupin [34], AutoFormat [47], Polyglot [26], Discoverer [33], FFE/x86 [44]) can be used to guide fuzzing tests.”
Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets (2017, background): “, network protocols, or natural language corpora [7, 14, 17, 53], crucially rely”
Grammar-based whitebox fuzzing (2008, background): “Other grammars, especially for network protocols, are simplified representatio ns of valid inputs, and do not require the full power of contextsensitivity [28, 4, 9].”