PROJECTS

   1 Open projects for the netsniff-ng toolkit (if you are interested in
   2 participation, let us know - we are looking forward):
   3
   4 - Better protocol support for netsniff-ng's dissector:
   5         - Tool: netsniff-ng
   6         - Required skills: C, Protocols
   7         - Difficulty: Easy
   8
   9 - Extensive testing (with eventual code fixing) and performance evaluation:
  10         - Tool: netsniff-ng, trafgen (both with Jumbo frames), curvetun
  11         - Required skills: Testing, C
  12         - Difficulty: Easy
  13
  14 - Reduce general code size, refactor, improve code (i.e. rewrite parsers):
  15         - Tool: all
  16         - Required skills: C
  17         - Difficulty: Easy - Hard
  18
  19 - Improve manpages, write a user's guide, maybe technical paper:
  20         - Tool: all
  21         - Required skills: POD, Manpages, LaTeX
  22         - Difficulty: Easy - Medium
  23
  24 - TPACKETv2 (TPACKETv3) support:
  25         - Tool: netsniff-ng, trafgen
  26         - Required skills: C
  27         - Difficulty: Easy - Medium
  28
  29 - PCAP anonymization support:
  30         - Tool: netsniff-ng
  31         - Required skills: C
  32         - Difficulty: Easy - Medium
  33
  34 - Add IPv6 support:
  35         - Tool: ashunt, flowtop, curvetun (testing)
  36         - Required skills: C
  37         - Difficulty: Medium
  38
  39 - Packet departure timing models (i.e. exponential, uniform, cauchy, normal,
  40   pareto distributed):
  41         - Tool: trafgen
  42         - Required skills: C
  43         - Difficulty: Medium - Hard
  44
  45 - Unit test preparation:
  46         - Tool: all
  47         - Required skills: C, Shell, Sharness?, Coccinelle?, CMake?
  48         - Difficulty: Medium - Hard
  49
  50 - Improve ifpps with things like 'Gnuplot support', 'Power usage / temperature',
  51   'Colorized output':
  52         - Tool: ifpps
  53         - Required skills: C, Gnuplot, Procfs
  54         - Difficulty: Hard
  55
  56 - Interactive txf config generator with a set of supported protocols and
  57   support for packet distribution models (IMIX, Cisco, ...):
  58         - Tool: trafgen
  59         - Required skills: C, Protocols
  60         - Difficulty: Hard
  61
  62 - Warp implementation (ARP cache poisoning):
  63         - Tool: warp
  64         - Required skills: C
  65         - Difficulty: Hard
  66
  67 - PCAP-ng support:
  68         - Tool: netsniff-ng
  69         - Required skills: C
  70         - Difficulty: Hard
  71
  72 - ERF support:
  73         - Tool: netsniff-ng
  74         - Required skills: C
  75         - Difficulty: Hard
  76
  77 - Better obfuscation of curvetun's protocol to make it harder for DPIs
  78   to detect:
  79         - Tool: curvetun
  80         - Required skills: C
  81         - Difficulty: Very Hard
  82
  83 - Perform a security review of curvetun:
  84         - Tool: curvetun
  85         - Required skills: C
  86         - Difficulty: Very Hard
  87
  88 - Design and implement a high-level packet filtering language that compiles
  89   to bpf code:
  90         - Tool: either inclusion in bpfc or a new one
  91         - Required skills: C or Haskell
  92         - Difficulty: Very Hard
  93
  94 - Implement packet capture, replay and traffic generation for other
  95   hardware types (USB, Bluetooth, GSM?, ...)
  96         - Tool: netsniff-ng, trafgen (tools need to be extended)
  97         - Required skills: C
  98         - Difficulty: Very Hard
  99