The Honeynet Project

Visualization is a niche area especially at the security analysis. As mentioned in a well-known sentence; "A picture is worth a thousand words". The importance and the power of the visualization in the security area stands out with the ability to define multi-dimensional data with a single shape. When addressing the creating a mesh tiled 3D view on an Earth map, i was reading about the geoweb application development. A geoweb application consists of some components.

Spatial Data

As the plan is to embedd python as scripting language into the honeypot, I ran a benchmark on a testsuite. The 'testsuite' is a c core which accepts connections, and allows python to deal with the input. The protocol used for benchmarking is http, the service serves a non static html page.
I tested

• 2.6.2_(release26-maint,_Apr_19_2009,_02:15:38)
• 3.0.1+_(r301:69556,_Apr_15_2009,_17:22:45)_
• 3.1a1+_(py3k,_Mar_30_2009,_02:02:26)_

To benchmark, I ran the apache benchmark tool ab