rumint (room-int) is an open source network and security visualization tool

- Load pcap datasets and capture live traffic.
- VCR/PVR interface to play back the traffic
- Visualize packets in seven carefully designed windows
- Extremely flexible with a total of ~20 different views.
- Currently handles up to 30,000 packets in a high speed RAM buffer.

5 July 2008
For everyone interested in security data visualization, I'd like to announce the publication of my friend Raffy Marty's Applied Security Visualization. I am looking forward to reading it, and knowing Raffy, it is a great book.

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18 September 2007
I just released version 2.14. It contains an updated network interface list that works well with the latest version of winpcap (4.0.1).

I'm pleased to announce that I've finished writing a book on Security Data Visualization(No Starch Press) featuring RUMINT. The book is back from the printers and should be available any day now. I hope you enjoy it.



5 June 2006
RUMINT made the cover of the June Communications of the ACM.

I just upgraded RUMINT to version 2.11. The key difference is that you can now compare thousands of packets at a time using a multicolumn packet length visualization (go to the view menu and select binary rainfall, adjust the number of columns) Here is a sample image of a capture the flag dataset.

23 May 2006
Learning to interpret RUMINT images is a bit tricky, so I created a short
tutorial/overview guide to help you get a feel for it.

2 January 2006


This version adds filtering and scaling based on TCP and UDP ports (see the toolbars>filters menu) as well as filtering based on packet length. Also, I converted all the appropriate interface elements to eliminate the need for the fm20.dll which should make installation cleaner. I'm hoping this will allow rumint to also work on Japanese versions of Windows, if someone could let me know, I'd appreciate it. I'd also like to thank the good people at astalavista for placing rumint on their top 10 tools list. Finally, rumint should not time out based on the packetX library I'm using, this version should fix any problems along this line.


The latest version is:
rumint_v2.14[4.2M]
change log

rumint v2.14 source
developer notes
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This software is licensed under the CC-GNU GPL.



If you like the tool, please consider joining the (low volume) rumint users mailing list. I'd like to hear your feedback and answer your questions. Also, please note that rumint still requires the winpcap library.

I'm in the process of building an image gallery for the site. If you have a screenshot that you would like included please email me a copy. (extra points if you can send along the supporting pcap file and a short blurb on what the image shows. I think posting all three would be of the most benefit to the community. :) I'd like to include your name in the gallery to give you credit, but if you wish to remain anonymous, that is fine too. My email address is: conti replace_with_at_symbol cc.gatech.edu

I need to update the following documents, but they are relatively current.
installation guide
faq

If you are interested in the research behind the tool you will find related talks and papers at my academic homepage.

     

rumint version history...

rumint_v2.14 [4.2M] rumint v2.14 source (latest version)
rumint_v2.11 [4.2M] rumint v2.11 source
rumint_v2.09 [4.1M] rumint v2.09 source
rumint_v2.04 [6.1M] rumint v2.04 source
rumint_v2.03 [6.0M]
rumint_v1.97
[6.0M]
rumint_v1.92 [6.0M]
rumint_v1.86 [6.0M] conversion utility (not needed for later versions)
rumint_v1.85 [6.0M]
rumint_v1.81 [6.0M]
rumint v0.52
[3.1M] see v0.51
rumint v0.51 [3.1M] v0.51 screenshot
rumint v0.31 [3.1M] v0.31 screenshot


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