[Nottingham] network security in Linux!

[Duncan John Fyfe]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Martin Waryniak wrote:

> Hi everybody,

> Anyway, the reason for my post, I am currently looking for an idea for
> my final year group project I have to do as a CompSci student. I am
> interested in netowrk security and cryptography and have read a couple
> of books on the topics but do not know much "practical" stuff. I was
> just wondering, has anyone got any ideas on a project in that area
> (preferably in a Unix/Linux) environment?

How about user space tools to allow people to test an iptables configurations
before letting them loose on their firewall ?


Have fun,
Duncan

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