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An Analysis of the Manufacturing Messaging Specification Protocol

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Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2008)

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The Manufacturing Messaging Specification (MMS) protocol is widely used in industrial process control applications, but it is poorly documented. In this paper we present an analysis of the MMS protocol in order to improve understanding of MMS in the context of information security. Our findings show that MMS has insufficient security mechanisms, and the meagre security mechanisms that are available are not implemented in commercially available industrial devices.

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  1. mnemonic as, NO-0167, Oslo, Norway

    Jan Tore Sørensen

  2. SINTEF ICT, NO-7465, Trondheim, Norway

    Martin Gilje Jaatun

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Frode Eika Sandnes Yan Zhang Chunming Rong Laurence T. Yang Jianhua Ma

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Sørensen, J.T., Jaatun, M.G. (2008). An Analysis of the Manufacturing Messaging Specification Protocol. In: Sandnes, F.E., Zhang, Y., Rong, C., Yang, L.T., Ma, J. (eds) Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing. UIC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5061. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69293-5_47

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