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March 21th, 2003
Results of the Honeyd Challenge
On February 17th, we announced the first Honeyd challenge and asked the community
to improve Honeyd by creating useful feature additions. One month
later we received eight submissions which were evaluated by the judges
during the last week. While eight submissions is a small number
compared to the challenges of the Honeynet Project, we were still
impressed by the novelty of the solutions and the amount of time that
the contestants put into the Honeyd Challenge.
The best submissions included a pattern detection engine for the
network traffic passing through Honeyd and a tool that builds random,
realistic honeyd configuration files. We also received submissions
for a graphical user interface, a port of Honeyd to Windows and many
more.
Top Submissions
See below for a ranking of the top submissions. Each submission
will receive a signed copy of Lance Spitzner's new book
"Honeypots: Tracking Hackers."
The top three winners (Christian Kreibich, Andrew B. Smith/Jason
M. Fox and Brian Caswell) get to choose one additional prize each
including a free pass to CanSecWest/core03 conference
including a free hotel (up to four nights) for the first place, a $200
gift certificate to amazon for the 2nd place, and a $100 gift
certificate to amazon for the 3rd place. Any of these individuals can
trade amongst themselves the awards they received.
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Thank you all for participating. As a result of this challenge and
your excellent submissions, the community has received several new
service emulations, new configuration tools and many novel ideas on
how to use Honeyd.
Judges
I would like to thank the judges who put in a great amount of time
to evaluate and judge the submissions. Many of the submissions
required additional software to be installed and configuration files
to be understood, resulting in more time spent judging than we
originally anticipated.
The judges were:
- Mike Clark
- Job de Haas
- Rain Forest Puppy
- Lance Spitzner
Thank you.
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