[Gimp-print-devel] Simulate network printers w/ various protocols

[Ugurcan A. <ugu...@st...>]

Dear devs,

a while ago (2017) I wrote my bachelors thesis about MITM attacks on
network printers.
Thankfully Robert Krawitz helped me out a lot with decoding ESC/P2 print
jobs.

Now I thought to ask you again for an advise:

In cooperation with other universities across Germany we currently work
on a project which has the aim to raise awareness amongst SMBs by
demonstrating attacks and their mitigations in different scenarios.
My current task is to simulate network printers with different protocols
(PS, ESC/P2, PCL) to avoid setting up physical printers. These printers
should be used to print virtually and capture the network traffic. The
captured traffic is then analyzed automatically to extract print jobs
and show the risks of unencrypted printer communication.

I wanted to ask if there is any way to simplify this process with the
help gimp print. Maybe something you also use for testing.
My current approach would be a CUPS server but this would limit me
probably in terms of protocol diversity(?)

Let me know if you need more information.


Best regards and thanks in advance

Ugurcan Albayrak

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Ugurcan Albayrak
Student assistant at Department of Computer Science
Hochschule Darmstadt - University of Applied Sciences
Haardtring 100 
D-64295 Darmstadt

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