My research paper is done! There have been a few corrections, updates, additions, and the paper is overall much better now. For those of you who missed the pre-release announcement made on this list, here's an excerpt that summarizes the paper fairly well: "...I present an alternate approach to application-level OS fingerprinting. The general idea is that there are certain requests that can be made to cross-platform applications which result in OS-dependant responses." And here's the goods... RAR (contains all three formats): http://www.x10security.org/appOSfingerprint.rar TXT: http://www.x10security.org/appOSfingerprint.txt PDF: http://www.x10security.org/appOSfingerprint.pdf PPT: http://www.x10security.org/appOSfingerprint.ppt Enjoy! -- Dan Crowley "One machine can do the work of one hundred ordinary men. No machine can do the work of an extraordinary man."