Academic project based on OpenGGSN

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Manuel José Muñoz Calero manuelj.munoz at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 15:31:44 UTC 2016


Hi guys,

I will do my project about some other topic.
But it has been nice to find this project so I will gladly work in making
OpenGGSN code better.

I will come back with my findings and plan.

Regards,
Manuel

2016-03-22 16:12 GMT+01:00 Neels Hofmeyr <nhofmeyr at sysmocom.de>:

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 04:00:14PM +0100, Manuel José Muñoz Calero wrote:
> > I am evaluating these days the possibility to do something interesting
> > which could be used as my project and also to put my bit for the OpenGGSN
> > project.
>
> Well, my opinion is that OpenGGSN has fairly bad code structuring. It has
> heavy use of code duplication and the code layers aren't separated well
> (e.g. I can't use libgtp to decode messages without also using its tx/rx).
>
> So a proper audit and spring cleaning might be a nice project, if not
> necessarily super exciting, at least it is well defined in that OpenGGSN
> should not (or hardly) change behavior while making the code safer /
> easier to maintain / more versatile to re-use. You could analyse the code
> structures and/or security holes, academically argue why they are bad and
> come up with improvements, while using and/or writing tests to ensure
> correctness. If you know your stuff, all OpenGGSN users would arguably
> benefit from that.
>
> I'd like to do that if I had the time, but that will probably never be the
> case. I'm too busy writing new bugs for 3G :P
>
> That's just my sixpence -- good speed for your project, whichever you
> chose! :)
>
> ~Neels
>
>
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