Re: [Openpacket-devel] Just uploaded some torrents

[Richard B. <tao...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 9:16 AM, David J. Bianco <da...@vo...> wrote:
> 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
>

David, great work.

Sharri, what do you think about making the site more torrent-friendly?

Thank you,

Richard