[Openpacket-devel] Just uploaded some torrents

[David J. B. <da...@vo...>]

I just uploaded some torrent files to OpenPacket.  One is the Shmoocon 2007
torrent that has been up on the tracker for a while now.  There are also
three new torrents for packet captures from Defcon 8, 9 and 11.  The Defcon
12 torrent is having a few issues, which I hope to have ironed out soon.

I did these as torrents because the packet captures are very large.  I
think the smallest is about 5GB. I uploaded them the same way I would
upload a PCAP file, and they're all tagged as "torrent".  However, the
data contained in these captures doesn't really fall easily into the standard
"Normal/Suspicious/Malicious" category we use in OP.  I would like to request
a new category, just for torrents.  This should make it easier for people
who need to find large captures to use as a corpus of test data or something.

For something slightly more difficult, it'd be kinda nice to embed the
tracker stats for each torrent inside the OP interface.  For example,
before you download the torrent, it could show you the current # of
seeds and peers.  This is kind of standard on web sites that host torrents.

I think we're going to collect more and more large captures via bittorrent
in the future, so some basic support inside OP would be great.

Oh, and please seed these!  I'm the only one seeding the Defcon captures
right now.  Looks like I might need a new HD just to store these on at
some point.

	David