Re: Nmap SoC Ideas?

[Henri Salo <henri () nerv fi>]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:55:56 -0600
David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 08:13:32PM +0800, liu xiaohui wrote:
> > But I am a newbie to the nmap, so I want to chose this project
> > because I can go through the code of nmap. So would you guys tell
> > me where should I begin if I wanna choose this project as my GSoC
> > Application?
>
> Hello, thanks for your interest. The question "where should I begin in
> the Nmap source code" is becoming a FAQ. Henri Salo posted some good
> mailing list links a few months ago at
> http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q3/977. They are:
>
> "Design of Nmap"
> http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q2/173
>
> "how to start reading the nmap source code ?"
> http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q1/42
>
> "getting strated with nmap development"
> http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q1/566
>
> My advice is to start with the function nmap_main in nmap.cc, and
> trace the execution until you find something you want to learn more
> about. Then when you have specific questions you can ask this list.
>
> David Fifield

You should also study the scripting engine
<http://nmap.org/book/nse.html>. In fact I have noticed that NSE has
been VERY interesting subject for newbies, because you can make lots of
nice tricks with it in short time and Lua is always good language to
learn.

Nmap Network Scanning -book is obviuosly "must have" book in
everybodys library :)

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Henri Salo
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