README

Robert Johnson and Roy McElmurry (johnsr7, johnsr7), (mcelmr, roy)

Our Botnet communicates over an IRC network, mostly using private chats between the command and control bot and the slave bots. Our Botnet has a main CC bot that is in control of the whole net and it mainly talks to the slave bots to give commands that will be carried out. The CC talks to each bot individually instead of all at once. The net also uses multi-part cryptography. This means that it uses many different types of crypto. The Botnet uses RSA crypto to initialize the communications between the CC and the bots. Once a connection is established, the CC and the bots perform a Diffie-Hellman key exchange and generate a secret key that will be used in a triple DES nonced block cipher for all messages.

To build our code, you should run the make files that are on the system. To start the slave bots, you run "make bots [n=x]", where x can be some number and the n variable optionally defaults to 3. Bots are created and run as background processes. Output from each bot is dumped into files of the form "bot_output/botX.txt", where X is some number less than the number of bots made. To start the CC bot, you run "make master". To start a leasing bot, one that can lease from our net, you run "make leaseMaster". To get rid of all bot processes and the bot_output folder, run "make clean". Lastly, "make all" runs clean, bots and then master in that order.