These projects are on our radar but nobody has started to work on them yet. If you are interested in helping out with any of them, let us know.

Deep Cluster

Building hierarchies of clusters, all controlled by BroControl. (No additional information available yet).

Integrating 0mq

Replacing the current communication system with 0mq .

BroControl work

Wish list items for BroControl.

Improving DPD confirmation/rejection semantics

The semantics for ProtocolViolation() and ProtocolConfirmation() need fine-tuning.

Improving IPv6 support

Bro’s IPv6 support needs improvement in a number of areas.

Improving the script interpreter

Bro’s script interpreter still has some rough edges. The link lists all the tracker tickets tagged with language.

Code Pretty Printer

Bro’s source code has evolved over many years, and is now using a number of slightly different layout styles. We need a pretty printer that unifies layout automatically.

A Bro Performance Benchmark

Estimating Bro’s performance is difficult because it depends on so many factors. We could develop a standarized benchmarks that allows comparisions across sites and hardware platforms.

The Comprehensive Bro Archive Network

A CPAN/PyPi/easy_install kind of tool for Bro scripts making it easy to provide and use externally maintained Bro scripts.

Sandboxing Bro

BroControl could setup/maintain an OS-level sandbox/jail for the running Bro process.

Packet Aquisition and Control Framework

The task here is designing and implementing an abstracted interface for packet aquisition and control that integrates a number of recent developments in that space into an abstracted interface for Bro to use.