[47137] in Cypherpunks
Re: Shimomura on BPF, NSA and Crypto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julian Assange)
Sat Jan 13 13:44:06 1996
From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net>
To: hallam@w3.org
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 05:28:28 +1100 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9601131747.AA11926@zorch.w3.org> from "hallam@w3.org" at Jan 13, 96 12:47:14 pm
> >Tsutomu has lots of glib rhetoric about how he just builds tools and
> >they can be used for good or evil. This tool is custom-designed for
> >evil.
>
> Rubbish, it would allow me to do something I urgently need to do - measure the
> performance of the main internet links. This is presently very difficult to do
> since the berkley sockets provide no network performance information to the
> application layer.
[..]
The standard BPF does exactly what you want already. Can you say tcpdump?
I think some research is inorder before you go shooting off your mouth.
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