[SECURITY-L] Honeyd 0.6: Happy Summer/Pre-Birthday Release

[Daniela Regina Barbetti Silva]

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From: Nelson Murilo <nelson em pangeia.com.br>
Subject: [S] Honeyd 0.6: Happy Summer/Pre-Birthday Release
To: seguranca em pangeia.com.br
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:09:37 -0300


I am pleased to announce the latest release of Honeyd:

HONEYD 0.6: HAPPY SUMMER/PRE-BIRTHDAY RELEASE:
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Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network. The
hosts can be configured to run arbitrary services, and their
personality can be adapted so that they appear to be running certain
operating systems.

Honeyd provides a framework thats helps with many security problems.
It can be instrumented to automatically detect worms, to provide
network decoys to deter adversaries, threat detection and
assessment, etc.  Honeyd also helps with spam prevention and simple
network simulations.

Version 0.6 includes many feature improvements and bug fixes:
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  Support for plugins that allow external developers to hook into the
  Honeyd packet stream.  Thanks to Christian Kreibich.

  The routing code has been improved to scale to larger topologies
  using trinary tree code provided by Bill Cheswick.

  Support for asymmetric routes and GRE tunneling allowing distributed
  Honeyd installations and virtualization of dispersed topologies.

  External machines can be integrated into the virtual routing
  topology to create more realistic honeynets.  This feature may also
  be used for network simulation by placing several machines at
  different ends of the topology and see how packets are affected by
  packet loss, etc.

  Subsystems can be shared between different virtual hosts now to
  increase the performance on large networks.

  Many many bug fixes.

More information on Honeyd can be found at

  http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/honeyd/

Honeyd is released under a 4-clause BSD license.

Please, check the GPG signature before installing Honeyd.  It is
recommended to run Honeyd under a sandbox like Systrace; see
  
  http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/systrace/

Feedback and comments are welcome.

Regards,
 Niels Provos.

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