An attacker engages in activities to decipher and/or decode protocol
						information for a network or application communication protocol used for
						transmitting information between interconnected nodes or systems on a
						packet-switched data network. While this type of analysis inherently
						involves the analysis of a networking protocol, it does not require the
						presence of an actual or physical network. Although certain techniques for
						protocol analysis benefit from manipulating live 'on-the-wire' interactions
						between communicating components, static or dynamic analysis techniques
						applied to executables as well as to device drivers such as network
						interface drivers, can also be used to reveal the function and
						characteristics of a communication protocol implementation.