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Introducing the 2008 Nmap/Google Summer of Code Team
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:11:25 -0700
The Nmap Project is pleased to announce that Google has agreed to sponsor seven student developers to spend their Summer enhancing the Nmap Security Scanner. If you enjoy the new Zenmap GUI, 2nd generation OS detection system, or the Nmap Scripting Engine, then you are using features developed in a large part by previous Summer of Code students. While the last three years have been terrific successes, as described at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q4/0024.html , we hope to accomplish even more this year. So we're delighted to introduce the 2008 team: Kemal Akman has already made a name for himself in the security world under his handle Mixter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixter). His experience writing numerous security tools and exploits makes him a perfect choice to create Ncat and Nping, new interpretations of the venerable netcat and hping2 utilities. Our versions will utilize Nmap's efficient networking libraries, be actively maintained, and include all the features we have long wished were in the originals. Much of the work on Ncat has already been completed by previous SoC student Chris Gibson. For more details on our plans, see the project requirements document at http://nmap.org/SoC/Ncat.html . Mixter is finishing his 2nd year studying Bioinformatics at Ludwig-Maxmillians University in Munich, Germany. He will be mentored by Nmap author Fyodor. Patrick Donnelly is a well-known expert in the Lua community, and also has substantial experience with C and C++. So he is a perfect choice to improve the Nmap Scripting Engine [http://nmap.org/book/nse.html] infrastructure. Some ideas include adding a script documentation system based on LuaDoc and improving the efficiency of the system. Patrick is finishing his 3rd year as a Computer Engineering student at the University of New Mexico in the USA. His project mentor is Fyodor. Kris Katterjohn has long been one of the most prolific Nmap developers. He has authored hundreds of useful patches, and his name appears in the Nmap changelog 82 times. He was a successful Nmap SoC student last summer, and we're delighted to have him back again. As a feature creeper, Kris will handle a wide variety of tasks, from fixing bugs to adding new features. Kris is finishing his 2nd year studying Computer Science at Northwest Mississippi Community College in the USA. He will be mentored by Fyodor. Vladimir Mitrovic plans to spend the summer improving the Zenmap GUI. In addition to improving the interface, Vladimir is interested in adding network topology mapping to the system. He has already written code for this, and posted ideas at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q1/0409.html . Vladimir successfully completed SoC last year with the OpenMRS project. When we asked his previous mentor for a reference letter, it started with "Vladimir is a star" and ended with "If you work with Vladimir, you won't be disappointed." He is finishing his fifth year studying Computer Science at the University of Belgrade in Serbia. Vladimir will be mentored by David Fifield, who was himself an Nmap SoC student last year. Jurand Nogiec will also be working on features and enhancements for Zenmap. Our goal is to make Zenmap so powerful in browsing and analyzing results that even Nmap experts will prefer it to the command-line for some scans. Of course the traditional command-line version isn't going away! Jurand is finishing his second year studying Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the USA. He will be mentored by David Fifield. Michael Pattrick will be a feature creeper working on a wide variety of important Nmap tasks. One of tasks will be improving the Nmap OS fingerprint integration system as described at http://bamsoftware.com/wiki/Nmap/OSIntegratorAssistantRequirements, as he has already developed some great ideas for doing so. Michael is completing his 2nd year studying IT Security at the University of Ontario IT in Canada. His mentor is David Fifield. Philip Pickering plans to focus on the Nmap Scripting Engine, with an emphasis on writing valuable scripts and libraries. He will also be doing some infrastructure work, such as enhancing the NSE debugger so it can be integrated with Nmap. Philip is completing his 2nd year studying Software & Information Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria. His mentor will be Diman Todorov, who helped create the Nmap Scripting Engine as a Nmap SoC student in 2006. In addition to these core Nmap projects, 5 students were sponsored to work on the UMIT Nmap GUI. UMIT was created by SoC student Adriano Marques in 2005 and 2006 and forms the basis of Zenmap which is now included with our Nmap packages and integrated into our repository. However, Adriano has developed his own design goals for Umit, and is carrying it forward as a separate project. We wish him the best in this endeavor and are excited to see what the Umit team comes up with. The selected UMIT students have been announced at http://blog.umitproject.org/ . Please join us in welcoming this new team of Nmap SoC students! Most of the development will be done on the nmap-dev list, where everybody is invited to participate in coding, suggesting ideas, testing, etc. With a team like this, we can't help but expect great things for the Summer of 2008! -Fyodor http://nmap.org _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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- Introducing the 2008 Nmap/Google Summer of Code Team Fyodor (Apr 21)
- Re: Introducing the 2008 Nmap/Google Summer of Code Team Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman (Apr 21)
- Re: Introducing the 2008 Nmap/Google Summer of Code Team sara fink (Apr 21)
- Re: Introducing the 2008 Nmap/Google Summer of Code Team eldraco (Apr 21)
- Re: Introducing the 2008 Nmap/Google Summer of Code Team Kris Katterjohn (Apr 21)
- Re: Introducing the 2008 Nmap/Google Summer of Code Team Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman (Apr 21)