[Cs22800] Any project ideas?

[Benjamin Johnson]

On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 10:37, ziba robert scott wrote:
> Contrary to our silence on this list, Stephen Dranger and I (Ziba Scott) 
> are both excited about this class.  (I'm speaking for Stephen for the 
> moment because he is en route from Japan).
> That having been said, we don't have solid project ideas in mind.
> We do, however, both have an inclination to work on something of a 
> visual nature.  In part this is because it's outside the realm of our 
> classwork so far and also we've been working in a lab where everyone 
> does visulization research and we got stuck with a statistical project.
> Preferably with OpenGL, but gui work and the like also interests us.
> -Ziba
> 

That sounds pretty interesting.  I don't mind visual stuff, but I'm more
into the
command line security programs and what not...although a good gui will
never be cause for complaint from me.  I am friends with the honeynet
guys (honeynet.org), and they have a rootkit that is actually used to
capture information about blackhats and crackers to use in analysis
later on.  So in a sense, the rootkit is actually used against hackers
to hide the monitoring / sniffing tools.  I have worked on the project
for a while and they need a lot of coding so I may do that.  They
actually presented our project at the BlackHat conference in Vegas this
summer.

I'll let the list know when I decide on what I'll be doing to hopefully
spur some more interest in getting this class off the ground.


Ben