Re: Contributing to Nmap development

[Ravipriya Thushara <rthushara () gmail com>]

> I recommend that you look in the online TODO and try working on
> something that looks interesting. A lot of the items are long-term or
> are already being worked on, so here are some I recommend:

I read the TODO list and got these as interesting. But don't know if
any one is already
started doing these..

o Fix traceroute performance/algorithms....
o Windows 7 RTM Nmap testing ...
o Scanning through proxies...
       I'm not clear in this point.But I assume Nmap can't scan the
outer networks
       through proxy(if we are behind the proxy)

> o [NSE] Add DNS based service discovery script.  See
>   http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q3/0786.html for more of this idea
>   from David.
     I read the article and this seems interesting.

> o [NSE] Support routing http requests through proxies.
     I think this is same idea(scanning through proxy)
> o [NSE] Security Review
>  o Consider what, if any, vulnerabilities or security risks NSE has
>    with respect to buffer overflows, format string bugs, any other
>    maliciously formatted responses from target systems, etc.  Maybe
>    address the known risk of malicious scripts too.
      I really love to do this.but haven't much knowledge to start
with.But I hope to work on
      on that someday.

> o Zenmap should perhaps be able to print Nmap output (if not too much
>   of a pain to implement.)
>
> o Zenmap script selection interface for deciding which NSE scripts to
>   run.
     I like to work on Zenmap.But I'm not clear much about the idea.

> From above Ideas I like to work on these
+   traceroute algorithm improvement
+   [NSE] Add DNS based service discovery script
+   Scanning through proxies
+   Works related to Zenmap

As I'm an amateur to the Nmap code I don't know up to how much I can do this.
I can code in C,C++ (I think my Java and .Net knowledge is useless in here) and
began to learn Lua (using 'Beginning Lua Programming' ebook).
How ever I have decided to do my 12  week project on Nmap and like to
do in above
ideas (I have to do a considerable amount of work.So sometimes I'll
need to work on
two ideas to come up with that)
I have to submit a proposal on my project on next Tuesday(22nd September) to my
instructors. So please help me to decide a possible project using
above ideas(considering
my knowledge and project time). Also I like to code some other useful
scripts in Lua.

Thank you

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