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Re: Introducing the 2013 Nmap/Google Summer of Code Team!
From: Aleksandar Nikolic <nikolic.alek () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:37:38 +0200
Have a fun and productive summer! Ideas look great, and I'm looking forward to seeing them. Especially Win improvements. And to the three SoC students: You have chosen wisely! I know I had fun working with Nmap last summer and I'm sure you will too! On 6/5/2013 10:33 PM, Fyodor wrote:
Hello everyone. The Nmap Project received a spectacular batch of 40 Summer of Code proposals this year, and I'm happy to report that Google has agreed to sponsor three amazing students to spend this summer enhancing the Nmap Security Scanner! I'm delighted to introduce the 2013 team: *George Chatzisofroniou* will enhance Nmap's web scanning support. Nmap already has more than 80 http-related Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) scripts, but George will show us how much more is possible. The web has grown to dominate the Internet and is becoming ever-more complex, so it is critical that Nmap help keep web sites secure. He has already written several scripts. George is a fourth-year student pursuing a bachelor's degree in Computer Science at the University of Piraeus in Greece. He will be mentored by our resident Lua expert (and previous SoC student and mentor) Patrick Donnelly. *Jacek Wielemborek* came at us with an audacious idea: adding Lua scripting support to our Ncat utility (http://nmap.org/ncat/). Such a big change raises questions of architecture, design, and purpose, so we asked Jacek for more details. He came back with a proposal ( http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2013/q2/276) and even an initial proof of concept implementation. This could really take Ncat to the next level of functionality! Jacek is soon to graduate from the University of Lodz in Poland with bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Management. He will be mentored by David Fifield, who joined the Nmap Project as a SoC student in 2007, later became a SoC mentor, and now is Nmap's co-maintainer. *Yang Luo* will be our WinPcap developer and low-level Windows expert. While Windows is probably Nmap's 2nd most popular platform (behind Linux), it is shortchanged in developer attention because most of us run Linux. In particular, we have many desired improvements to the WinPcap packet capturing library described at http://nmap.org/soc/#winpcap. Yang has already developed plans for implementing most of these enhancements. He is nearing completion of a master's degree in Computer Science from Beihang University in Beijing, China and will be mentored by Nmap author Fyodor. I'm also happy to report that Henri Doreau has agreed to serve as backup mentor for all three students. Not only does he offer unique insight from his development work all over the Nmap codebase, but this gives us better time zone coverage since he's in Europe while our other mentors are U.S.-based. This is the Nmap Project's ninth year participating in the Google Summer of Code. If you enjoy the Zenmap GUI, Ncat, Ndiff, Nping, Ncrack, or the Nmap Scripting Engine, you're using features developed in a large part by previous Summer of Code students. And with a team like this, we can't help but expect more great things! Full-time coding starts June 17, but we have already started project brainstorming and planning. Some participants may use this community bonding period to get an early start on coding, while others will focus on testing Nmap and reading the code and documentation. Please join us in welcoming this new team of Nmap SoC students! Most of the development will be done on the nmap dev list ( http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/), where everybody is encouraged to participate in coding, suggesting ideas, testing, etc. I'd also like to offer big thanks to Google for putting another six million dollars (over all projects) into open source development this summer! You can read about all the other organizations and their accepted students at http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/search/label/gsoc Cheers, Fyodor _______________________________________________ Sent through the dev mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
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Current thread:
- Introducing the 2013 Nmap/Google Summer of Code Team! Fyodor (Jun 05)
- Re: Introducing the 2013 Nmap/Google Summer of Code Team! Aleksandar Nikolic (Jun 05)
- Re: Introducing the 2013 Nmap/Google Summer of Code Team! George Chatzisofroniou (Jun 06)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Introducing the 2013 Nmap/Google Summer of Code Team! Jacek Wielemborek (Jun 08)