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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Deciphering Malware's use of TLS (without Decryption) · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1607.01639/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1607.01639/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>Deciphering Malware's use of TLS (without Decryption) — mentioned by m-app</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18911787</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1607.01639:18911787</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:28:30 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;This is exactly what has been researched at multiple security companies and productized by Cisco under &amp;quot;Encrypted Traffic Analytics&amp;quot;. This is based on research from 2016 that can be found on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01639 &amp;gt; We conclude that malware&amp;#x27;s usage of TLS is distinct from benign usage in an enterprise setting, and that these differences can be effectively used in rules and machine learning classifiers. Disclaimer: I work for Cisco&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1607.01639/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CR</category></item><item><title>Deciphering Malware's use of TLS (without Decryption) — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14611191</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:1607.01639:14611191</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 10:20:42 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Deciphering Malware&amp;#x27;s Use of TLS (without Decryption)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1607.01639/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CR</category></item><item><title>Deciphering Malware's use of TLS (without Decryption) — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14603643</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:1607.01639:14603643</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2017 13:37:43 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Deciphering Malware&amp;#x27;s Use of TLS (without Decryption)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1607.01639/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. A submission is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CR</category></item><item><title>Deciphering Malware's use of TLS (without Decryption) — mentioned by anonymousDan</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12642695</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1607.01639:12642695</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2016 10:05:56 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Could you elaborate a bit on what kind of passive DPI you can usefully do on an encrypted TLS session? Do you mean something like this? https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.01639v1.pdf&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1607.01639/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CR</category></item></channel></rss>
