Re: Time for Nmap SoC! Project ideas wanted.

["Eddie Bell" <ejlbell () gmail com>]

One vote for the testing framework. I think it will help us catch a
bunch of minor bugs. I know with traceroute there have been a couple
of occasions where simple tests would have caught silly bugs that
surfaced due to changes in nmap.

 - eddie

On 12/03/2008, Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org> wrote:
> Hi All.  I'm happy to report that SoC time is coming up again, and now
>  is the time to determine what projects to sponsor!  You may recall
>  that we have had great results from the Google Summer of Code program
>  in the past three years:
>  K
>  2005 successes: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=183143&cid=15133184
>  2006 successes: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q1/0235.html
>  2007 successes: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q4/0024.html
>
>  And I'm hoping 2008 will be even better!  But for students to achieve
>  great results, we need to give them great things to do.  If there is
>  anything you have particularly wanted in Nmap or related tools, now is
>  your chance to speak up and potentially get it sponsored.  Here are some ideas I've had:
>
>  o Zenmap developer to continue to improve and extend Nmap's new cross-platform GUI
>   o Anyone here have ideas for what you'd most like to see in Zenmap?
>  o Nmap Scripting Engine infrastructure architect to improve the NSE platform
>  o Nmap Scripting Engine script developer to write a bunch more scripts
>   for us.
>    o Anyone have ideas of scripts you'd love to see?
>  o Collect top ports data so that we can say things like "scan just the
>   100 most common TCP ports".  The feature already exists, we just need
>   the data.
>  o Add a fixed-rate packet sending mode to ultra_scan() (like what
>   UnicornScan and ScanRand offer).
>
>  And of course I always look for "feature creepers" who fix bugs and
>  make a bunch of smaller improvements.  In fact some of the tasks above
>  would qualify.  I've made a draft "ideas page" here:
>
>  http://nmap.org/GoogleGrants.html
>
>  And here are some other ideas that may be worth adding:
>
>  o A testing framework that could be run (particularly before new
>   releases) to insure that things are working properly.  Maybe it could
>   even go so far as scan machines such as scanme.nmap.org to make sure
>   OS detection works correctly, etc.
>
>  o Performance engineer.  I kinda want to do this myself, but I can't
>   devote a whole summer to it, so maybe we could put it up as a task in
>   case we find someone great.
>
>  o Hosted Nmap -- an open source CGI system for running Nmap scans
>   against your network.
>
>  o Raw-packet IPv6 support so you could do SYN scan, etc.  Does anyone here use IPv6.
>
>  o Windows IPv6 support.  Again, does anyone want this?
>
>  o Embedded Nmap work--Nmap on the OLPC, Nokia Internet Tablets, and similar devices.
>
>  So those are the ideas which come to mind.  Anyone have other ideas,
>  or comments/expansions/details on these ones?
>
>  Cheers,
>  -F
>
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