
openPenny: Developing an Open-Source Tool for Detecting Non-Spoofed Traffic


Petros Gigis
Based in London, United Kingdom
Petros Gigis is a final-year PhD student in Computer Science at University College London. His research interests include computer networks, Internet routing, and Internet measurements. More
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In this article, we introduce openPenny, an open-source traffic checker currently under development as part of the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. The goal of openPenny is to help network operators identify non-spoofed traffic arriving at unexpected entry points: this offers a new primitive to de…