Instant Messaging Application Encrypted Traffic Generation System
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Instant Messaging Applications (IMAs) have become the leading communication tool for smartphone users. While it is insightful for network operators and security researchers to monitor and analyze the network traffic of their organization, there is a lack of research on IMA encrypted traffic analysis. In a companion work [1], we introduced a flow-based encrypted IMA traffic analysis using a data driven approach. Given the lack of publicly available data in this area, a new encrypted IMA traffic generation system is designed and implemented to automatically generate and label encrypted IMA traffic including Discord, Facebook Messenger, Signal, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, and WhatsApp. The new system utilizes a combination of open-source tools to emulate user behavior, to capture, filter and label the resulting traffic directly on an Android device. This demonstration shows the functionality of the proposed system via data generation, capture, and analysis of the six IMAs.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it