Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 update

2013-05-28 Thread Ahmed Elshaer
can i please ask for something , could u recommend books to read or any other things can i do to reach higher level cuz i got mail that i will not participate in Qshark On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Alexis La Goutte wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Gerald Combs wrote: > >> Ear

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 update

2013-05-28 Thread Alexis La Goutte
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Gerald Combs wrote: > Earlier today Google officially accepted student projects for Google > Summer of Code 2013. Wireshark was awarded three slots: > > Project Student Mentor > > QtShark student programmerThomas ERSFELDAlex

[Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 update

2013-05-27 Thread Gerald Combs
Earlier today Google officially accepted student projects for Google Summer of Code 2013. Wireshark was awarded three slots: Project Student Mentor QtShark student programmerThomas ERSFELDAlexis La Goutte JSONshark Wei Dai Luis

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-05-14 Thread Mohana Sai
Thanks. I don't know that GTK 2 and 3 co-exist. When the note came on the screen, I thought I need to remove the newer one as with the case with some software before installing the older versions. However, the command works, there is no need for me to install gtk2. :) Thanks, MohanaSai Cherukuri

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-05-14 Thread Anders Broman
oun...@wireshark.org [mailto:wireshark-dev-boun...@wireshark.org] On Behalf Of Mohana Sai Sent: den 14 maj 2013 06:15 To: Developer support list for Wireshark Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark Is there a way to avoid downgrading GTK+ on ubuntu 1

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-05-13 Thread Mohana Sai
Is there a way to avoid downgrading GTK+ on ubuntu 12.04 before building wireshark? Thanks, MohanaSai Cherukuri ___ Sent via:Wireshark-dev mailing list Archives:http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscrib

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-05-02 Thread Mohana Sai
While using privilege separation on linux systems,we can make the dumpcap an IPC service configured to run as root or system-started daemon running as root, the dumpcap can receive commands via IPC channels and will be held responsible for ensuring only right users are allowed to perform the comman

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-05-01 Thread Mohana Sai
> Most systems running Wireshark aren't Linux systems. Thanks. As in the ideas page the statement read " a way to capture packets on Linux and OS X" , only linux came to my mind. > BTW, TShark and Wireshark currently communicate with dumpcap using an, > err, umm, pipe > Currenlty in deb

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-05-01 Thread Guy Harris
On May 1, 2013, at 8:58 PM, Mohana Sai wrote: > Sorry for not being specific in the previous mail. > > I was thinking about adding ACL to dumpcap file. I.e., set an ACL limiting who is allowed to execute it? Do *ALL* file systems on which dumpcap might reside support ACLs? > And if many syst

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-05-01 Thread Mohana Sai
Sorry for not being specific in the previous mail. I was thinking about adding ACL to dumpcap file. And if many systems don't have D-Bus by default, we can use some IPC which is very common in linux systems (unix pipes came to mind, but not sure if it is supported in all linux systems and I read

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-05-01 Thread Guy Harris
On May 1, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Mohana Sai wrote: > I am little confused about this project. What requirements the project > doesn't meet if we use any of these 2 methods > > By simply adding ACL? Adding an ACL to what? > By separating the code in to privileged part and unprivileged part and us

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-05-01 Thread Mohana Sai
I am little confused about this project. What requirements the project doesn't meet if we use any of these 2 methods By simply adding ACL? By separating the code in to privileged part and unprivileged part and using DBus to communicate the privileged part with unprivileged one ? Regards, MohanaSa

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-04-29 Thread Guy Harris
On Apr 29, 2013, at 9:26 AM, Gerald Combs wrote: > One of the problems with this approach is that new, inaccessbile bpf > devices can be created at any time. Ultimately, that'a deficiency of OS X - it *should* use cloning BPF devices.

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-04-29 Thread Gerald Combs
On 4/28/13 12:02 PM, Guy Harris wrote: > > On Apr 28, 2013, at 7:43 AM, Surbhi Jain wrote: > >> When we install WIRESHARK or most of the softwares on any distro, window >> prompts up asking for root password. When the installation of the software >> starts, can't we run a script which will all

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Student.

2013-04-29 Thread Alexis La Goutte
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Salman Javaid wrote: > Dear Mentors: > My name is Salman Javaid, and I am a graduate student in > Electrical Engineering. Is there a possibility that I can propose a > project? If yes, then currently there is no support for USB Dongles in > Wires

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project "New Export Objects"

2013-04-29 Thread Alexis La Goutte
Hi Jin, Just, any person are work to implement it. Regards, On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Jin Huang <54jin.hu...@gmail.com> wrote: > ** > ** > Hi, all > I'm wondering now that wireshark has implemented the reassemble TCP > segments and can export objects from HTTP/DICOM/SMB stream. Why it

[Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project "New Export Objects"

2013-04-29 Thread Jin Huang
Hi, all I'm wondering now that wireshark has implemented the reassemble TCP segments and can export objects from HTTP/DICOM/SMB stream. Why it doesn't designed to support the FTP/SMTP protocol from the beginning ? Is that because the objects embedded in FTP/SMTP may be very large? or just there

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-04-28 Thread Guy Harris
On Apr 28, 2013, at 7:43 AM, Surbhi Jain wrote: > When we install WIRESHARK or most of the softwares on any distro, window > prompts up asking for root password. When the installation of the software > starts, can't we run a script which will allow the logged in user or > third-party user to

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-04-28 Thread Surbhi Jain
Sir I got your point regarding the security as it depends on wired or wireless network or further the internal network design of an organisation and the WEP/WPA security of their network. When we install WIRESHARK or most of the softwares on any distro, window prompts up asking for root password.

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-04-26 Thread Guy Harris
On Apr 25, 2013, at 7:26 AM, Surbhi Jain wrote: > Would it mean that end user can also capture traffic which won't belong to > him or if he is not the owner of the packet? Security has no concern for > capturing packets? If somebody's concerned about capturing "third-party" traffic not being

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-04-26 Thread Surbhi Jain
Would it mean that end user can also capture traffic which won't belong to him or if he is not the owner of the packet? Security has no concern for capturing packets? Root permissions are therefore OS dependent? Am I right? Or are we supposed to edit the dumpcap file. Surbhi Jain 3rd year , Compu

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Student.

2013-04-25 Thread Jeff Morriss
On 04/23/13 16:20, Salman Javaid wrote: Dear Mentors: My name is Salman Javaid, and I am a graduate student in Electrical Engineering. Is there a possibility that I can propose a project? If yes, then currently there is no support for USB Dongles in Wireshark for Windows. As fa

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013: Process Information

2013-04-25 Thread Anders Broman
From: wireshark-dev-boun...@wireshark.org [mailto:wireshark-dev-boun...@wireshark.org] On Behalf Of Ashish Sent: den 25 april 2013 16:11 To: wireshark-dev@wireshark.org Subject: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013: Process Information Hi, By mistake I sent a reply to wireshark-dev without editing the

[Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013: Process Information

2013-04-25 Thread Ashish
Hi, By mistake I sent a reply to wireshark-dev without editing the subject. Please find my reply below. > On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Gerald Combs wrote: > > > Polling the system's TCP and UDP connection tables is trivial but its > > usefulness is limited since it assumes that your interesti

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Student.

2013-04-25 Thread Salman Javaid
Mentors, can you please give feedback? I will be grateful. Best Regards, Salman Javaid On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Salman Javaid wrote: > Dear Mentors: > My name is Salman Javaid, and I am a graduate student in > Electrical Engineering. Is there a possibility that I can

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-04-24 Thread Guy Harris
On Apr 24, 2013, at 7:24 AM, Surbhi Jain wrote: > Hi all, > > A normal user must have the permissions to capture and view the packet info. > till layer 5 if that belongs to his request from server. > He can be able to save a packet, to delete a packet, to edit a packet and > sent it back to t

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-04-24 Thread Phil Turmel
On 04/24/2013 10:24 AM, Surbhi Jain wrote: > Hi all, > > A normal user must have the permissions to capture and view the packet > info. till layer 5 if that belongs to his request from server. He can be > able to save a packet, to delete a packet, to edit a packet and sent it > back to the server.

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-04-24 Thread Surbhi Jain
Hi all, A normal user must have the permissions to capture and view the packet info. till layer 5 if that belongs to his request from server. He can be able to save a packet, to delete a packet, to edit a packet and sent it back to the server. Packet contains the info for the identification of th

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013: Process Information

2013-04-24 Thread Guy Harris
On Apr 24, 2013, at 12:10 PM, Anders Broman wrote: > Process info is entirely useless when capturing of a mirror/pawn port ...or in monitor mode on Wi-Fi, or in promiscuous mode on a non-switched Ethernet, or with some type of passive tapping hardware (Endace DAG cards, etc.)... > so it shou

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013: Process Information

2013-04-24 Thread Guy Harris
On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Gerald Combs wrote: > Polling the system's TCP and UDP connection tables is trivial but its > usefulness is limited since it assumes that your interesting traffic has > a corresponding table entry at the instant you poll. This may not be the > case for short-lived c

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013: Process Information

2013-04-24 Thread Anders Broman
Gerald Combs skrev 2013-04-24 20:20: On 4/24/13 3:26 AM, Ashish wrote: Hi all, This mail is in reply to the mail sent (below) by Kostadin. I'm contacting you with an intent to request some further info about the task "Process Information" as found on the Wireshark's Google Summ

Re: [Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013: Process Information

2013-04-24 Thread Gerald Combs
On 4/24/13 3:26 AM, Ashish wrote: > Hi all, > > This mail is in reply to the mail sent (below) by Kostadin. > > > I'm contacting you with an intent to request some further info about > the task "Process Information" as found on the Wireshark's Google > Summer of Code 2013 project pag

[Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Project Proposal for Root permissions in wireshark

2013-04-24 Thread Surbhi Jain
Hi all, I came across the project "Root permissions" in wireshark. i downloaded wireshark on my ubuntu PC in order to capture the packets. I was unable to select any interface as I was not logged in as root. The permissions of file /usr/bin/dumpcap needs to be changed as 775 or 777 in order to vie

[Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013: Process Information

2013-04-24 Thread Ashish
Hi all, This mail is in reply to the mail sent (below) by Kostadin. > I'm contacting you with an intent to request some further info about the > task "Process Information" as found on the Wireshark's Google Summer of > Code 2013 project page. > > After a short research on the matter, I cant help

[Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013 Student.

2013-04-23 Thread Salman Javaid
Dear Mentors: My name is Salman Javaid, and I am a graduate student in Electrical Engineering. Is there a possibility that I can propose a project? If yes, then currently there is no support for USB Dongles in Wireshark for Windows. As far as I know, from winpcap 3.1 the support f

[Wireshark-dev] [GSoC 2013] Improved Fuzzing

2013-04-19 Thread Rohit
Hi, I am Rohit, I am interested in 'Improved Fuzzing' project. I have couple of questions related to project. Please find them below. 1. Could you please suggest me some techniques that I can look in to for improving fuzzing for better code coverage? 2. Could you also let me know where to look f

[Wireshark-dev] [GSoC 2013] Improved Fuzzing

2013-04-18 Thread Rohit
Hi, I am Rohit, Ph.D. candidate in CS at University Of Georgia. My Research interests lie at the intersection of Distributed Systems and Networking. I am interested in 'improved fuzzing' project. I have basic idea of random fuzzing and symbolic execution. I have couple of couple of questions rela

Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-Dev] GSoC 2013: Improved Fuzzing

2013-04-17 Thread Gerald Combs
Our current fuzz tests are run using the fuzz-test.sh and run-randpkt.sh scripts in the "tools" directory in the Wireshark sources. fuzz-test.sh uses editcap to introduce errors in existing capture files and run-randpkt.sh uses randpkt to create packets with random contents. We've been able to find

Re: [Wireshark-dev] [GSoC 2013] New Export Objects

2013-04-16 Thread Gerald Combs
On 4/12/13 2:38 AM, Alexis DUQUE wrote: > Hi, > > I am Alexis, a student at the INSA de Lyon, in telecom engineering > department. > I have good c/c++ skills, network and system programming ( I'm > actually implementing a simple P2P node) . > > I would like to contribute to the Wireshark project,

[Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-Dev] GSoC 2013: Improved Fuzzing

2013-04-15 Thread Ninh Khong
Dear Sirs, I am a CS student from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. I have learnt the information regarding the GSoC project ideas and am really exciting to know about Project Improved Fuzzing of Wireshark. While I am interested in applying and joining this, I might need your clarificati

[Wireshark-dev] GSoC 2013

2013-04-15 Thread Ishan Sharma
Hello! I would like to apply at Wireshark for GSoC 2013. I have checked the list of projects and interested in (and capable of doing) some of them. The project I am mainly interested in is "Wireshark for Android". I have a good android development experience and have used libpcap to develop simple

[Wireshark-dev] [GSoC 2013] New Export Objects

2013-04-12 Thread Alexis DUQUE
Hi, I am Alexis, a student at the INSA de Lyon, in telecom engineering department. I have good c/c++ skills, network and system programming ( I'm actually implementing a simple P2P node) . I would like to contribute to the Wireshark project, applying for GSoc 2013. I'm interested in working on *

[Wireshark-dev] [GSoC 2013] Packet Editor (UI)

2013-04-10 Thread Abhishek Ravi
Hello, I am Abhishek, a student at the National University of Singapore majoring in computer engineering. I am interested in applying for GSoc 2013 with WireShark, and this particular project looks interesting. Could you provide more details, especially in terms of the enhancements that are to be i

[Wireshark-dev] [GSoC 2013]

2013-04-10 Thread luca melandri
Hello, I'm an Italian student of Computer Science Course at University of Bologna and i'd like to be involved with *Arbitrary capture sources*(Preferred if possible) or *New Export Objects *Projects for Google Summer of Code 2013. I'm studying Computer Network and i like it a lot so i'd like to acc

Re: [Wireshark-dev] [ GSoC 2013: Process information in Wireshark ]

2013-04-08 Thread Christopher Maynard
Ashish Raste writes: > 1. Could you suggest me some pointers/references > specifically related to knowing the process info of the packets so that I can start working/thinking along > those lines. For starters, you might want to have a look at this bug report: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzill

[Wireshark-dev] [ GSoC 2013: Process information in Wireshark ]

2013-04-08 Thread Ashish Raste
Hi all, I'm a CS student from National University of Singapore. I came through the GSoC project ideas of Wireshark and I'm interested to know/learn about having Wireshark tell the Process information of the packets captured. I mainly wanted to ask you the following: 1. Could you suggest me some p