STNN: A Novel TLS/SSL Encrypted Traffic Classification System Based on Stereo Transform Neural Network

Abstract

Nowadays, encrypted traffic classification has become a challenge for network monitoring and cyberspace security. However, the existing methods cannot meet the requirements of encrypted traffic classification because of the encryption protocol in communication. Therefore, we design a novel neural network named Stereo Transform Neural Network (STNN) to classify encrypted network traffic. In STNN, we combine Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) and Convolution Neural Network (CNN) based on statistical features. STNN gains average precision about 95%, average recall about 95%, average F1-measure about 95% and average accuracy about 99.5% in multi-classification. Besides, the experiment shows that STNN obviously accelerates the convergence rate and improves the classification accuracy.