OS and Application Fingerprinting Techniques

This paper will attempt to describe what application and operating system (OS) fingerprinting are and discuss techniques and methods used by three of the most popular fingerprinting applications: nmap, Xprobe2, and p0f.

By

Jon Mark Allen

October 22, 2008

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