Enriching security toolbox in Solaris with Netcat

Joint TF-CSIRT/FIRST Meeting

Tuesday — January 29th, 2008 10:40

Netcat is often called "TCP/IP Swiss army knife" and used by both system administrators and hackers. Up to now Solaris lacked the implementation of Netcat. The talk will describe the process of integration of nc(1) into OpenSolaris. The talk will also cover processes specific for (Open)Solaris development such as code review, architectural review and testing. Also, future plans for extensions and enhancements will be laid out.

Presenters

• Vladimir Kotal (Sun, CZ)

  Vladimir Kotal fixes security bugs in Solaris which means both vulnerabilities and bugs in security technologies. He mainly spends time with binaries and source code of IPsec (kernel+IKE), crypto (kernel,userland,PKCS#11), SSL (kernel proxy+OpenSSL libraries) and SunSSH. Before joining Sun he worked as UNIX system/network administrator and security officer for one of the biggest ISPs in Czech republic. He graduated from Charles university in Prague where he focused on operating systems (UNIX) and networks (IPv6).