Well, if you're reading this, hopefully you are already seeing the difference, but just a little bit ago I deployed an all new layout for the HiPPIE website, including an all new HiPPIE logo.  I got some comments from friends about not liking the last one, and so I took some time and whipped this little bad boy up, and put him into a much cleaner feeling site.  It's at least looks a little bit less like it was designed by a kindergardener.  I hope you enjoy the new layout, and the new logo, and I would love your comments sent to me at the e-mail address on the bottom of the page.  Thanks!

Well, it's been some time since I posted anything, but there's a good reason for that.  First of all, shortly before the last post, I started a new job, which has been awesome.  As if that wasn't enough life change, I just moved to a new city in the first part of May.  And last, but actually best, I just got married at the end of May.  So, as you can probably guess, I've not had a lot of time to be doing any coding on HiPPIE.  But the good news for HiPPIE (not as much for me) is that my wonderful new wife has some obligations the next couple nights, so I intend to try and get some HiPPIE work done.  Sorry to keep you hanging as I still try to resolve some issues with HiPPIE, but I'll do what I can as soon as possible.  Thanks!

Well, I've been having a little bit of time to work on HiPPIE on and off, and I've accomplished some things that will come down the tube both in HiPPIE 0.9.1, as well as updates of the HiPPIE website.  I've got a few solid hours work left in a new webapp that will allow people to come to the website and upload small pcap files to have them analyzed by HiPPIE and a report posted to be viewed by them on what the contents of that pcap are, session by session.  This is a good preview to some folks for just how well HiPPIE works, and can also be used as a nice debugging tool for others as well. 

As far as 0.9.1 is concerned, one fix it will already for sure have is patching against 2.6.24 and beyond, as I've resolved the issue with proc_net that was causing the problem, which has been committed to CVS.  I have a few other things I want to get in before releasing 0.9.1, including documentation on doing an active HiPPIE installation, as well as the release of the HiPPIE iptables extension that ties into the HiPPIE netfilter plugin that is already in the kernel patches.  It's done, I just need to get the patchset up and documented.

Until then, I hope you're enjoying playing with 0.9.0, and I look forward to delivering more protocol identification work to you!

Well, the time has finally come.  HiPPIE is now a reality for people besides myself.  Granted, it's not a full 1.0 stable release yet, but as a friend of mine has mentioned to me many times over the last year, "release early, release often."  Finally, I'm heeding his advice.  So, without further adue, you can now get your very own copy of HiPPIE right from the download page.  There are still a couple instabilities which you can find in the caveats on the download page, but you can see for yourself that HiPPIE is fully available over at SourceForge.  As you get ready to start trying HiPPIE out, check through the documentation, which is still a work in progress, and if you can't find the answer you're looking for there, sign up for the users mailing list, and have a shot at your question there, or shoot me an e-mail and I'll try to respond as timely as I can.  I hope this release is helpful to you all, and at the same time can help push HiPPIE forward into the future.

I've been working on the new backend for the HiPPIE website ever since I took down all of my TikiWiki content because of all the vulnerabilities.  So, I've created a much simpler backend for managing HiPPIE's content.  In the meanwhile, I've also been finish up some code cleanup to begin preparing the way for what this is really all about.  Hopefully in the next couple days I can finish porting all of the old content to the new format, and then begin building new content on how to install and deploy HiPPIE, and then finally the official release of a set of HiPPIE patches for the kernel.  Thanks for your patience, and I promise it will be rewarded.