Re: Snort and DPI

[Kevin Ross <kevross33 () googlemail com>]

To answer your questions:
- Yes it is DPI as it is looking at the full packet.
- If it is your network an you have the appropriate security and network
usage policies in place you are able to capture whatever you want. Sure
Snort is aimed more at security stuff but you can match on all cleartext
traffic (technically you could go a full packet capture and get everything
which from a security point of view is advisable).

Kevin

On 2 August 2012 12:21, Pratik Narang <pratik.cse.bits () gmail com> wrote:

> Dear Snort Users and Developers,
>
> Snort's detection engine searches for specific signatures in the
> payload of IP packets. So is it right to equate Snort's detection with
> Deep Packet Inspection?
> So are there ethical/privacy issues involved with Snort's detection run as
> well?
>
> Thanks...
>
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