Re: Snort 1.9 vs 2.0

[Hervé Debar <herve.debar () francetelecom com>]

Martin Roesch wrote:
> No, let me explain.  Snort 1.9.0 was released last week.  The merge that 
> we did last night is the basis of the Snort 2.0 development branch, 
> basically Snort with several extensions that were developed at 
> Sourcefire to enable us to hit gigabit speeds.  The Sourcefire 
> extensions are open source and available under the GPL, just like the 
> rest of Snort.  The only difference is that we spent several hundred 
> thousand dollars on salaries, equipment and hard core research to bring 
> this update to you instead of having me try to write it in my spare 
> time. :)
>
> The Snort 2.0-dev branch is the CVS HEAD now, the Sourcefire mods have 
> been released into the open source domain as part of our "ethical 
> contract" with the Open Source community to bring the best of commercial 
> development contributions (money, test equipment, people who get paid to 
> work on this stuff) with the best of the open source contributions (huge 
> QA team, tight feedback between developers and users, continuous 
> improvement of codebase).
>
> I hope you guys will enjoy this monumental leap in performance that 
> we've just contributed and that we can all continue to have fun and  
> make Snort the best IDS possible!

So IIUC, snort-devel on snort.org is snort 2.0 on sourcefire, right ?

Am I right in assuming that the rule writing is also changing ?

Thanks,

Hervé
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