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RE: Spade/Spice and Snort?


From: "Michael Steele" <michaels () winsnort com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 13:13:24 -0800

The CC thing is a quirky part of Outlook. I usually 'Reply to all' because
if I just hit the 'reply' button, it only sends eMail to the users address
and not to the list.

The usefulness of spade has greatly diminished when it was no longer
accepted and removed as a part of the Snort distribution.

I'm sure the last update was working with 2.x. You can contact the
programmer (Jim Hoagland) and he can verify this. I think his eMail is in
the distribution. 

Cheers...

-Michael Steele
-- 
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-----Original Message-----
From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net [mailto:snort-users-
admin () lists sourceforge net] On Behalf Of Matt Kettler
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 7:05 AM
To: Mark.Schutzmann () Omron com; Michael Steele
Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Spade/Spice and Snort?

At 03:34 PM 11/2/2003, Mark.Schutzmann () Omron com wrote:

Michael,

Thanks for that. In fact, I have learned about Spade from SiliconDefense.
Since this is a user group, I am actually asking for experiential
comments.
In knowing that Spade works on statistical anomolies, I am wondering if
people are finding this to be as useful as it sounds, or whether it is
just
another tool to sort out FPs and whether it just adds overhead to Snort.

(dropping the undesirable cc to snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net)

Personally, I successfully ran spade on a low-end hardware box so it's not
very high overhead.. it's definitely MUCH lower overhead than the
spp_conversation/spp_portscan2 pairing, which caused truly horrid packet
drop rates on the same hardware (>10%, and I think it was over 20%).

I found that in general things like installing a p2p client on a host that
previously did nothing but browse the web causes it to fire off quite a
bit
for a few days, but in general I found it to be fairly low on the false
alarms.. I did have to turn a few of the default settings off to get a
decent level of noise, but later versions of spade appeared to adopt the
same settings as the default.

Unfortunately, it looks like there's no version of spade designed for
snort
2.0.. the last version they released was 1/25/2003, and supported snort
1.9.0 (it works on 1.9.1 as well). It could possibly work with 2.0, but
I've not tried it.

Given that Silicon Defense has sold their sentaurus product line to
demarc,
it's unclear if they are going to continue development of spade or not.
It's kind of a shame I've not seen more active development of it.. it was
a
very useful plugin.






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