Subject: The DC as a security checker ?
To: None <port-dreamcast@netbsd.org>
From: Julien Cabessut <julien.cabessut@serafi.fr>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 03/07/2001 12:32:00
Hi,
I don't know if I'm posting to this list the supposed way, please forgive me
if I made a mistake... A question poped up in my mind while browsing
Securityfocus... why not use the DC as a network analyzer, sniffer, password
cracker, intrusion detection system ? I mean, with the huge amount of
existing tools in NetBSD to perform such tasks, the software side is no
issue. Do you think the Dreamcast cpu (and maybe, that vector-crunching-one
by its side), has the power it needs to perform such tasks ? The necessary
amount of RAM ? Uh, something I'm suddenly aware of : where to put the logs ?
(those poor VMUs are gonna blow if used for this purpose !)
--
Julien Cabessut
julien.cabessut@serafi.fr