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Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE
From: Sven Klemm <sven () c3d2 de>
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:05:21 +0200
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fyodor wrote: | On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:58:16PM +0200, Sven Klemm wrote: |> Adding furthing functions is trivial. |> | | Great. If OpenSSH binding hash functions are merged in to /nmap, we | need to remember to remove them from Nbase. I don't want to have | both. | |> I favor adding a to_hex method to the lua string class because this |> will result in the least code duplication and will also be a very nice |> addition as you can easily transform any string into a hexencoded |> string. It is a change to liblua though but the change is quite |> minimal and in my opinion extremely useful and as liblua is included |> in the nmap code I think modifying it is okay. | | In general, modifying Liblua would cause us problems. Right now, I | think, Nmap uses an existing system Liblua if it exists in preference | to the one included with Nmap. That avoids bloating Nmap, and makes | compilation faster too. Similarly, Linux distributions and the like | want to use existing shared libraries. If we muck with Liblua, we'll | have to change Nmap to always link with our hacked version, which | would be unfortunate. You are right, we shouldn't modify liblua. Adding to_hex() to string is still possible without modifying liblua. So we could still do that. Cheers, Sven - -- Sven Klemm http://cthulhu.c3d2.de/~sven/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjAW6AACgkQevlgTHEIT4YpcwCfZ5QOqLL9AX+qJv39ne14ko1o ETAAn1twi5zPeTswSIfH6tMd5E4Mh9p6 =hSxV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE, (continued)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE Sven Klemm (Sep 03)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE David Fifield (Sep 03)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE Patrick Donnelly (Sep 03)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE Sven Klemm (Sep 03)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE Patrick Donnelly (Sep 03)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE David Fifield (Sep 03)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE Sven Klemm (Sep 03)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE Sven Klemm (Sep 04)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE Fyodor (Sep 04)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE Sven Klemm (Sep 04)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE Patrick Donnelly (Sep 04)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE David Fifield (Sep 22)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE Sven Klemm (Sep 22)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE Ron (Sep 22)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE David Fifield (Sep 22)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE Ron (Sep 22)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE David Fifield (Sep 22)
- Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE Fyodor (Sep 23)