Wiretapping the Internet
Charles J. Antonelli, Peter Honeyman · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2001
This paper describes the Advanced Packet Vault, a technology for creating such a record by collecting and securely storing all packets observed on a network, with a scalable architecture intended to support network speeds in excess of 100 Mbps. Encryption is used to preserve users' security and privacy, permitting selected traffic to be made available without revealing other traffic. The Vault implementation, based on Linux and OpenBSD, is open-source.