Re: ftp-brute.nse overhaul

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

Hi Fyodor,

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org> wrote:
> > * Would this be a case to experiment with multi-threaded scripts? Does
> > that capability exist yet? (I haven't looked into Lua threading)
>
> We talked about this idea during SoC and Patrick had some
> implementation ideas.  The main goal was indeed to make the "auth"
> scripts faster.  Patrick, can you tell us more about where we stand in
> this respect?  I tend to recall that we weren't too far from being
> able to do this.

This is all done. I am using the functionality in the spider
module/script which is still in development. I can apply it early now
if Ron would like to use it immediately. I will also apply the
condition variable patch to nse_nmaplib.cc as condition variables are
very necessary for synchronization with worker threads.

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

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ford that see the shallows."

- Benjamin Franklin

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