SiLK, the System for Internet-Level Knowledge, is a collection of
traffic analysis tools developed by the CERT Network Situational
Awareness Team (CERT NetSA) to facilitate security analysis of large
networks. The SiLK tool suite supports the efficient collection,
storage, and analysis of network flow data, enabling network security
analysts to rapidly query large historical traffic data sets. SiLK is
ideally suited for analyzing traffic on the backbone or border of a
large, distributed enterprise or mid-sized ISP.

SiLK comes with NO WARRANTY.  The SiLK software components are
released under a GNU General Public License 2.0-style license and with
Government Purpose Rights.  See more information below.

In general, you can install SiLK by running
    configure ; make ; make install
However, there are several different configuration options.
Descriptions of the configation options and detailed installation
instructions are available in the SiLK Installation Handbook,
available in doc/silk-install-handbook.pdf and at
https://tools.netsa.cert.org/silk/silk-install-handbook.html or
https://tools.netsa.cert.org/silk/silk-install-handbook.pdf

Manual pages for each tool are installed when SiLK is installed.
These manual pages and additional documentation are available from
https://tools.netsa.cert.org/silk/

The following documents are available in either this directory or in
the doc/ directory:

    RELEASE-NOTES.txt
        -- history of changes to SiLK
    LICENSE.txt
        -- complete description of SiLK's copyright, license, and no
           warranty disclaimer
    silk-install-handbook.pdf
        -- complete description of installation, including various
           configurations you may choose
    silk-acceptance-tests.pdf
        -- description of tests used to check the integrity of SiLK
    autotools-readme.txt
        -- information for developers on using the AutoTools suite to
           re-create the "configure" script and "Makefile.in" files


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SiLK 3.23

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non-US Government use and distribution.

This Software includes and/or makes use of Third-Party Software each
subject to its own license.

DM24-1064

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