From zack.weinberg at sv.cmu.edu Fri Jan 21 14:12:31 2011 From: zack.weinberg at sv.cmu.edu (Zack Weinberg) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:12:31 -0800 Subject: [Netalyzr] Netalyzr-alike Test Pilot study Message-ID: I'm doing some research into deployment of DNSSEC and related protocols (particularly the extension now being called DANE, for authenticating TLS certificates via DNSSEC) and I'd like to collect a whole bunch of data on how much trouble we can expect from middle-boxes not understanding these DNS extensions. Netalyzr does much of this testing already, but requires Java with extra privileges, which limits the scope of testing. Mozilla is now shipping a mechanism (called Test Pilot) with Firefox that allows them to run arbitrarily complicated experiments on every user (individuals can opt out, but most don't). I am interested in seeing whether Netalyzr can be ported to this environment, ideally by machine translation -- Test Pilot studies have to be written in JavaScript; they have access to "chrome" APIs that can do more or less anything the browser core can do, so it should be *possible* to port Netalyzr over, but I don't know how much work it will be. What do you think of this notion? Would you be willing to give me access to your code, and possibly the use of your existing servers, for this project? thanks, zw