Researcher Creates Net Neutrality Test

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

I am particularly interested to see this, however I won't be
attended Blackhat/Defcon this year.

If anyone attends Dan's presentation and could provide additional
details, it would be greatly appreciated. :-)

Via InfoWorld.

[snip]

A Seattle-based security researcher has devised a way to test for net
neutrality. Dan Kaminsky will share details of this technique, which
will eventually be rolled into a free software tool, on Wednesday at
the Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas. The software can
tell if computers are treating some types of TCP/IP traffic better than
others -- dropping data that is being used in VOIP (voiceover Internet
Protocol) calls, or treating encrypted data as second class, for example.

Kaminsky calls his technique "TCP-based Active Probing for Faults." He
says that the software he's developing will be similar to the
Traceroute Internet utility that is used to track what path Internet
traffic takes as it hops between two machines on different ends of the
network.

But unlike Traceroute, Kaminsky's software will be able to make traffic
appear as if it is coming from a particular carrier, or being used for
a certain type of application, like VOIP. It will also be able to
identify where the traffic is being dropped, and could ultimately be
used to finger service providers who are treating some network traffic
as second-class.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/08/02/HNnetneutralitytest_1.html

- ferg


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