1 Open projects for the netsniff-ng toolkit are listed here. However, those are
2 current ideas for projects that came to our mind. We are also open for blue-sky
3 proposals that are not included in this list. If you are interested in
4 participation, let us know! We are always looking forward to get help in
7 - Better protocol support for netsniff-ng's dissector:
9 - Required skills: C, Protocols
12 - Extensive testing (with eventual code fixing) and performance evaluation:
13 - Tool: netsniff-ng, trafgen (both with Jumbo frames), curvetun
14 - Required skills: Testing, C
17 - Reduce general code size, refactor, improve code (i.e. rewrite parsers):
20 - Difficulty: Easy - Hard
22 - Improve manpages, write a user's guide, maybe technical paper:
24 - Required skills: POD, Manpages, LaTeX
25 - Difficulty: Easy - Medium
27 - TPACKETv2 (TPACKETv3) support:
28 - Tool: netsniff-ng, trafgen
30 - Difficulty: Easy - Medium
32 - PCAP anonymization support:
35 - Difficulty: Easy - Medium
38 - Tool: ashunt, flowtop, curvetun (testing)
42 - Packet departure timing models (i.e. exponential, uniform, cauchy, normal,
43 pareto distributed) and other packet scheduling behaviours (MB/s, ...),
44 ideally as a plugin architecture:
47 - Difficulty: Medium - Hard
49 - Unit test preparation and integration for the whole toolkit:
51 - Required skills: C, Shell, Sharness?, Coccinelle?, CMake?
52 - Difficulty: Medium - Hard
54 - Improve ifpps with things like 'Gnuplot support', 'Power usage / temperature',
57 - Required skills: C, Gnuplot, Procfs
60 - Interactive txf config generator with a set of supported protocols and
61 support for packet distribution models (IMIX, Cisco, ...):
63 - Required skills: C, Protocols
66 - Warp implementation (ARP cache poisoning tool, that cannot be detected with
77 - Better obfuscation method of curvetun's protocol to make it hard for DPIs
81 - Difficulty: Very Hard
83 - Perform a security review of curvetun:
86 - Difficulty: Very Hard
88 - Design and implement a high-level packet filtering language that compiles
90 - Tool: either inclusion in bpfc or a new one
91 - Required skills: C or Haskell
92 - Difficulty: Very Hard
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)
98 - Difficulty: Very Hard
100 - Design and implement partial reconfigurable hardware for traffic
101 generation under 10 Gbps, build an interface to trafgen and offload
102 heavily used packets for packet generation (and transmission) in
103 hardware, less heavily used in software (use Xilinx FPGAs)
105 - Required skills: C, VHDL (plus Xilinx board required)
106 - Difficulty: Very Hard