An Overview of Remote Operating System Fingerprinting

Operating System (OS) fingerprinting is the science of determining the operating system of a remote computer on the Internet. This may be accomplished passively by sniffing network packets traveling between hosts, actively by sending carefully crafted packets to the target machine and analyzing the...

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Chris Trowbridge

October 31, 2003

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