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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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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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