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RE: Socat
From: "L. Walker" <info-machine () magi net au>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:50:55 +1000
Comments below. Original message cut up to save space.
-----Original Message----- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae () op5 se] Sent: Friday, 17 June 2005 8:07 AM To: NMAP-DEV Subject: Re: Socat netcat has several (maintained) incarnations though, and part of its charm is that it keeps everything so absolutely super-simple (the original netcat actually only had "main()" which consisted of some 2000 lines of code and still managed to be somewhat elegant). Adding certificate logons, 2048-bit encryption, cryptographically sound hashing and public-key authentication will just make it messy without accomplishing all that much. Do we really need to re-invent ssh?
Cryptcat is a branch off Netcat that utilises encryption (uses symmetric key last time I checked). Granted, one could possibly just run netcat through stunnel or some other sort of cooked-up SSL proxy, but then it depends what you're looking for.
But seriously -- student absolutely do not need to go by my proposals. They can (and some have) propose something totally new or a major modification of one of these proposals. And if I think the proposal rocks, I'll try to get it sponsored. You need to be a student for this particular opportunity, and the app deadline has passed, but if there is something someone really wants to see ... send me (or nmap-dev) a detailed proposal! If it looks good, I'll run it by the applicants and see if any are interested. I probably will add at least a couple more projects, if I can think them up. But it will have to be in the next few days, as the acceptance deadline is next Friday.Unfortunately I put the scholars' world behind me nine years ago, and as I've already stated in a reply to madhat I'm bound by contract not to publish code or designs which can be used for anything nasty.
Andreas, I think he wasn't directing that at you and you're taking things out of context perhaps... :/ Down boy! ;) I do like the on-demand module idea, as it would be a more appropriate way to perform things, plus maybe you can write a new scan that relies on features of the NMap engine, just adding your own twist to things? The possibilities there are endless :) - L. Walker _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev
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- Re: What would we want in a new Netcat/Hping?, (continued)
- Re: What would we want in a new Netcat/Hping? Chuck (Jun 15)
- Re: What would we want in a new Netcat/Hping? Martin Mačok (Jun 16)
- Re: Socat Martin Mačok (Jun 17)