[Oisf-devel] new work on "protocol shepherds"

[Victor Julien]

On 11/29/2012 03:49 PM, Ron Watro wrote:
> At BBN we are working on some “ protocol shepherds” that we’d like to
> contribute to Suricata.  Our idea is to build a set of rules that focus
> on a specific protocol and that detect the common attacks and/or misuses
> of the protocol.   We are starting with ICMP (we did note that there
> were some existing rules here) and after that will move to DNS and
> others.   Dan Wyschogrod and David Mandelberg are the key developers on
> the project.  We’ve got the OISF developer agreement and have sent that
> to our legal department for approval.  We’ll be posting more info and
> asking questions about Suricata shortly.   Looking forward to helping
> make Suricata an even bigger success.  –Ron Watro

Sounds interesting. Will these be purely done using the existing rule
language, or will rule language extensions be necessary?

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