Animated Simulators

The goal of these animated simulators is to provide students interactive tutorials and simulations to help them better understand the concepts of internet security and computer networks.

Students can access them at http://sarac1.utdallas.edu/Animations/ from inside the UTD campus or at http://itom.utdallas.edu/Animations/ from outside the UTD campus. You are required to have windows environment, internet explorer and Macromedia Flash Media Player to run the simulators.

This consists of the simulators for the SYN flood attack, Kerberos architecture, Packet sniffing and different wireless attacks like eavesdropping, evil twin, man in the middle, ARP cache poisoning and ARP request replay.

SYN Flood Demo

This interactive animated simulator demonstrates visually how a SYN flood attack works in a local area network environment, and how data packets are sent and received on a normal network.  It also exhibits the method that can be used to prevent a SYN flood attack.

You can access the demonstration at http://sarac1.utdallas.edu/Animations/SYNFloodDemo/Mainmenu.swf

Kerberos

This tool includes a series of four animated scenes that progressively demonstrate the ideas that underlie the design of the Kerberos authentication architecture. It is based on the hypothetical dialogues of Project Athena. Each scene demonstrates a stage of the protocol development. Each successive scene adds additional complexity to counter security vulnerabilities revealed in the preceding dialogue.

You can access the demonstration at http://sarac1.utdallas.edu/Animations/kerberos/kerberos-1.swf

Packet Sniffer

The packet sniffer simulator consists of a suite of five demos: direct path, real path, promiscuous mode, packet sniffer and Telnet Over TCP/IP. Demo I to IV progressively demonstrate how a packet sniffer works at a higher level. Demo V intends to depict how a data packet is transmitted at a more in-depth level. It displays a protocol stack and animates the encapsulation and de-encapsulation process.

You can access the demonstration at http://sarac1.utdallas.edu/Animations/packet_sniffer/packet_sniffer_demo.html

Wireless Attacks

This tool includes a series of five animated scenarios that progressively demonstrate basic wireless network attacks. The five animated scenarios are eavesdropping, evil twin, man in the middle, ARP cache poisoning and ARP request replay.

You can access the demonstration at http://sarac1.utdallas.edu/Animations/wireless_attacks/wireless_attacks_demo.html

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