1. INL's contributions
    1. Linux Kernel
    2. Netfilter
      1. Ulogd2
    3. Prelude
    4. Apache
    5. SquidGuard
    6. gcrypt and gnutls
    7. Other software
    8. Open standards
    9. Integration with distribution
    10. Security vulnerabilities

INL's contributions

INL's policy is to actively contribute to Free Software projects we use by sending new features and bugfixes to uptream developpers. We improve Open Source projects and increase overall quality of Free Software.

Please note that this page contains only references to external projects, not managed by INL. INL also manages several important projects from scratch, listed on the home page.

Linux Kernel

INL works heavily with the Netfilter Core team to improve the filtering capabilities of Linux.

Eric Leblond is in charge of kernel developpement at INL. You can find a list of his contributions on Linux gitweb interface: Eric Leblond's contributions :

Netfilter

INL is involved in userspace developpement for Netfilter.

Here's the list of INL's contributions on Netfilter tools and libraries (SVN/Git commits).

INL has contributed an important number of modifications on the project on ulogd2. As there is more than sixty patches (Announce of one of the patchset), we will not list this here. Eric Leblond is now an official commiter on the ulogd2 project.

2008:

2007:

2006:

2005:

2004:

Ulogd2

INL is a major contributor of Ulogd2, the new userspace logging daemon for netfilter/iptables related logging.

A documentation of ulogd2 is available on this site.

Prelude

Pierre Chifflier has contributed to Prelude IDS:

Apache

INL hosts and contributes work to the Apache 2.0 French Translation project. This project is, of course, contributed to the official Apache documentation project.

Vincent Deffontaines has contributed code to the Apache httpd server project, both in 2.0 and 2.2 branches :

Vincent has also contributed the whole of Apache 2.0 core documentation translation into french :

Vincent has become an official Apache commiter.

SquidGuard

INL beings innovation to the !SquidGuard filtering proxy. Our contribution allows SquidGuard to filter web traffic based on dynamic DNS blacklists. It is available as a 1.4 patch and will be available directly from the 1.5 version of SquidGuard.

gcrypt and gnutls

gcrypt (july 2006):

gnutls (2005):

Other software

Open standards

INL strongly believes in open standards, and therefore tries to promote them by using them and presenting them ( jabber , djabberd server, ...).

Integration with distribution

Pierre Chifflier is a Debian developer, maintaining various security related packages. Jerome Soyer is a Mandriva contributer, maintaining various part of the distribution and a Fedora packager for NuFW.

Security vulnerabilities