> On Sep 2, 2014, at 2:13, Roland Knall <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have a more general question: At what point do you stop carrying about 
> false-positives with a heuristic filter?

Historically it's been "when people stop filing bug reports". I haven't seen 
any bug reports of type "my protocol X is getting dissected as openSAFETY 
instead", so I think you're ok :)

> I have openSAFETY traces, where less then 0,2% of all displayed frames are 
> false-positives. But I cannot finetune the heuristic anymore, or I increase 
> the risk for getting false-negatives.
> 
> Is there a point in fine-tuning down to an ideal 0% or do you just say, a 
> certain number of false-positives should be considered ok?
> 
> There are two approaches left for me, to further down the number, first 
> being, that I rewrite the CRC calculation and include it in the heuristic 
> search for frame 2. This might increase the time the dissection needs to 
> filter. The second approach is to include a preference, and filter out 
> certain number in a field, because they highly suggest a false-positive. 
> 
> Both approaches would complicate the development of openSAFETY device, 
> because you would no longer see false messages which might occur during 
> development.
> 
> Has anyone got some ideas here?
> 
> regards,
> Roland
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