MPD

Introduction

• This is the demo for paper MPD: Moving Target Defense through Communication Protocol Dialects
• Implemented the moving target defense using protocol dialects for file transfer protocol (FTP) in Python 3.
• This prototype is designed for get, yet it can be easily extended to other FTP commands.

Instructions

• Server end:

python server.py PORT_NUMBER

• Client end:

python client.py SERVER_IP SERVER_PORT_NUMBER

• Username and password are provided in users.txt

• ServerFolder and ClientFolder store the server and client files

Citing MPD

If you are using MPD in your research, please cite our paper.

Mei, Y., Gogineni, K., Lan, T., & Venkataramani, G. (2021, September). MPD: Moving target defense through communication protocol dialects. In International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Systems (pp. 100-119). Springer, Cham.

In BibTeX format:

@inproceedings{mei2021mpd,
  title={MPD: Moving target defense through communication protocol dialects},
  author={Mei, Yongsheng and Gogineni, Kailash and Lan, Tian and Venkataramani, Guru},
  booktitle={International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Systems},
  pages={100--119},
  year={2021},
  organization={Springer}
}

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