[Replying on the list (with you included) because this may actually be of use to others on the list]
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Prof. Partha <drpar...@gmail.com> wrote: > As part of my responsibilities at Kathmandu Univ, where I teach > cryptography and security, I plan to set up a lab for security related > experiments. It will consist of a LAN with a https server connected to > the web. People can try different kinds of attacks and coutermeasures > etc, in a controlled, "real-time" environment. Do you know anyone who > has set up something similar ? Can you connect me to that person ? I > would also like to visit Chennai sometime, and see some institutions > which do such kinds of things. Can you suggest some institutions (and > contact person) ? Any other suggestions in this matter will also be most > welcome. Tell me which period is best for all this. > Orthogonal to your request, I'd suggest leveraging Amazon's "VPC" and Amazon's EC2 to achieve this: Since all these services are highly configurable APIs you will be able to create restricted multi-node networks and be able to open it up for potentially the entire world to play with. Since AWS has the notion of a "machine image" you can have pre-configured vulnerable (or secure, as is the use-case) vulnerable machine images that get booted up on demand for as many people as you want. Amazon also provides many other controls that may not be possible in real world computers - such as being able to restrict uptime or restricting whether the state of a machine must be saved or not, etc.,. Above all, since you are doing it for an educational purpose, it will be possible for you (with some "rewording" of your intent) to leverage Amazon's Education grant to fund the needed resources. You can get your students to develop this system itself and in the process also give your students a much sought after skill. Even if the grant is not possible, AWS' "Spot instances" is a unique concept that bodes very well during Indian timezone and especially for this "use and throw" stateless machines use-case -- you can get fully functioning internet servers for as little as (as of yesterday's AWS market pricing) $0.005 per hour (25 paisa / hour? :) ). Regards, -Suraj -- Career Gear - Industry Driven Talent Factory - Amazon Web Services Training Partner and Consultancy Firm http://careergear.in/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc