backport summer tests to iclab/centinel

[ben-jones]

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[ben-jones]

Test primitives to migrate:

1. SSL/TLS MITM attack test
2. SSL Stripping test
3. HTTP primitive migration (should be its own issue because there are other issues here, like browser emulation)
4. more robust dns stuff (i.e chaos queries)
5. traceroute (is this a primitive or a test? we should use the underlying os implementation)
6. iran
7. indonesia
8. israel

#60 backports 1 and 2, 3-5 should probably be their own issues because they affect primitives, and we still need to migrate 6-8.

@gsathya, @rpanah, are you ok with including 6-8 in the alpha release, but pushing 3-5 back? 3-5 are basically redesigning our DNS, HTTP, and traceroute? primitives and I want to take the time to weigh the pros and cons of different options. Please comment below with your thoughts.

[gsathya]

@gsathya, @rpanah, are you ok with including 6-8 in the alpha release, but pushing 3-5 back?

No. I vote for removing this from alpha release.

[ben-jones]

@gsathya , to clarify, you vote for not including these tests?

[gsathya]

@gsatha, to clarify, you vote for not including these tests?

Yes

[ben-jones]

@gsathya, @rpanah, actually, looking at these tests, we will need to build the traceroute, HTTP, and DNS primitives to make this work, so I agree that we should push back so that we can have extra time to reflect on how to best build the measurement primitives.

[rpanah]

@ben-jones I vote for not including 6-8 as they aren't actual tests. These were toy experiments to test functionality and to see what we can detect. There is no reason for them to be included in the alpha release.

[phillipa]

I'd say include include whatever basic DNS/HTTP Get/Traceroute we have now and then iterate to add more features/make them better (e.g., headless browsing).

@rpanah has been meeting with a student here with some experiments that would benefit from the platform so we're getting some more concrete items that would be useful to implement (e.g., HTTP Proxy traceroute etc.)

Also for CitLab's purposes a good HTTP Get is absolutely required and should be a very high priority feature/task. That is their bread and butter (along with logging DNS results, and tcpdumps to a lesser extent).

[rpanah]

At this point, we have 1-4 (HTTP, DNS, traceroute, TLS). Iran, Indonesia, and Israel never had their own custom experiments in the older code base.
@ben-jones, I think this issue needs to be closed.