[Oisf-devel] Re2 support

Will Metcalf william.metcalf at gmail.com
Tue Jul 16 14:43:11 UTC 2013


The sregex lib looks interesting.. I believe I stumbled upon this when Ivan
Ristic tweeted about it..

http://agentzh.org/misc/slides/yapc-na-2013-sregex.pdf (PDF)
https://github.com/agentzh/sregex (code)


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Victor Julien <victor at inliniac.net> wrote:

> On 07/16/2013 02:54 PM, Chris Campbell wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking at a masters degree thesis which compares performance of
> various IDS systems and am planning on investigating/developing support for
> re2 in either Snort or Suricata as part of the report. Has anyone attempted
> this in the past? I can't see anything on the roadmap for Suricata, though
> I did see that re2 libraries are in C++ and Suricata is in straight C but I
> figure with time I may be able to work around this via wrappers etc.
>
> I has been discussed a few times, but as far as I know no one really
> attempted it.
>
> Cheers,
> Victor
>
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