Re: Hiding IP addresses in trace data

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 12:13, Jose Nazario wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, John Kristoff wrote:
> 
> > Too often it seems that people are attempting to hide their IP address
> > by masking the obvious dotted decimal notated number in various trace
> > data.
> 
> well said, john. this is actually a very difficult situation on many
> fronts, one of them being the discussion of security issues in an open
> forum. at usenix security 2002, someone working with vern paxson discussed
> some efforts they are making to develop software and infrastructure which
> allows for the scrubbing of the true address but the preservation of
> unique identifiers within the set of traces and flows.


Amen.  For those that use argus there is a new client in beta that is
designed to anonymonize (ugh!) sets of argus logs but still preserve as
much useful information as possible (such as inter event timings and
interrelationships between IP addresses).

Argus home page at www.qosient.com 

-- 
Russell Fulton, Computer and Network Security Officer
The University of Auckland,  New Zealand

"It aint necessarily so"  - Gershwin


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