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) and other packet scheduling behaviours (MB/s, ...),
  41   ideally as a plugin architecture:
  42         - Tool: trafgen
  43         - Required skills: C
  44         - Difficulty: Medium - Hard
  45
  46 - Unit test preparation:
  47         - Tool: all
  48         - Required skills: C, Shell, Sharness?, Coccinelle?, CMake?
  49         - Difficulty: Medium - Hard
  50
  51 - Improve ifpps with things like 'Gnuplot support', 'Power usage / temperature',
  52   'Colorized output':
  53         - Tool: ifpps
  54         - Required skills: C, Gnuplot, Procfs
  55         - Difficulty: Hard
  56
  57 - Interactive txf config generator with a set of supported protocols and
  58   support for packet distribution models (IMIX, Cisco, ...):
  59         - Tool: trafgen
  60         - Required skills: C, Protocols
  61         - Difficulty: Hard
  62
  63 - Warp implementation (ARP cache poisoning):
  64         - Tool: warp
  65         - Required skills: C
  66         - Difficulty: Hard
  67
  68 - PCAP-ng support:
  69         - Tool: netsniff-ng
  70         - Required skills: C
  71         - Difficulty: Hard
  72
  73 - Better obfuscation of curvetun's protocol to make it harder for DPIs
  74   to detect:
  75         - Tool: curvetun
  76         - Required skills: C
  77         - Difficulty: Very Hard
  78
  79 - Perform a security review of curvetun:
  80         - Tool: curvetun
  81         - Required skills: C
  82         - Difficulty: Very Hard
  83
  84 - Design and implement a high-level packet filtering language that compiles
  85   to bpf code:
  86         - Tool: either inclusion in bpfc or a new one
  87         - Required skills: C or Haskell
  88         - Difficulty: Very Hard
  89
  90 - Implement packet capture, replay and traffic generation for other
  91   hardware types (USB, Bluetooth, GSM?, ...)
  92         - Tool: netsniff-ng, trafgen (tools need to be extended)
  93         - Required skills: C
  94         - Difficulty: Very Hard
  95