Re: couple IDS development questions

Stefano Zanero <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ids
Organization DEI - Politecnico di Milano
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:

> 1) Which language?? C/C++ with its 
> already implemented projects (Snort, ModSecurity), Java with its multiplatform option? 

Network IDS ? C is the only viable option. And...

> 2) Should I just take a project and try to build a new one on top of it? Snort fe ? Has anybody done that before? Any suggestions?

Contribute to Snort.

> 3) How is network IDS analizing  network activity when almost every package nowadays is encrypted?

It's not true that everything is encrypted.

> 4) I'm thinking about encrypting IDS messages/alerts-packages as well? What cipher should i use?

Using OpenSSL seems a reasonable approach if you need to.

Stefano

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