openPenny: Developing an Open-Source Tool for Detecting Non-Spoofed Traffic

In this article, we introduce openPenny, an open-source traffic checker currently under development as part of the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. The goal of openPenny is to help network operators identify non-spoofed traffic arriving at unexpected entry points: this offers a new primitive to detect routing misconfigurations, evaluate policy or commercial adjustments, and defend against security threats such as BGP hijacks.RIPE LabsRead More