33. The security appliance of claim 32 wherein the processor is configured to determine the transitions by mapping the other NFA states and an epsilon closure of the other NFA states to a possible new unmarked DFA state.
33. The security appliance of claim 32 wherein the processor is configured to determine the transitions by mapping the other NFA states and an epsilon closure of the other NFA states to a possible new unmarked DFA state. 39. The security appliance of claim 33 wherein the processor is further configured to replace the mapping of the other NFA states and the epsilon closure of the other NFA states to the possible new unmarked DFA state with a different mapping of a computed hash value of the other NFA states and the epsilon closure of the other NFA states to the possible new unmarked DFA state.