Re: Contributing to Nmap development

[Ravipriya Thushara <rthushara () gmail com>]

Hi,

Thanks lot for all for helping me. I'll give main priority in my project to
 o [NSE] Add DNS based service discovery script.

After that script is done I'll try to work on Zenmap development and
some other Lua scripts with the time I have. even after my project,
I'll contribute to Nmap development.

Tomorrow I'll write the project proposal and I'll send a copy to here also.
Then I have to begin coding. Still I'm trying to learn whats happening in
Nmap and learn its basics in it's code and scripting.

I'll be glad if you can send me some more details on
o [NSE] Add DNS based service discovery script. and some places to
read and learn about it. Also I like to know some more ideas on scripting.

Thanks.
Ravipriya

On 9/20/09, Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 02:20:42PM +0530, Ravipriya Thushara wrote:
> > I read the TODO list and got these as interesting. But don't know if
> > any one is already
> > started doing these..
>
> Hi Ravipriya.  That's a good way to start!  Regarding your ideas:
>
> > o Fix traceroute performance/algorithms....
>
> David actually just did this, and merged the code in to the /nmap
> trunk a few days ago.
>
> > o Windows 7 RTM Nmap testing ...
>
> More testing here is definitely welcome.  We've had mixed reports so
> far, with most people saying it works but at least one person
> encountered problems.  However, this testing won't take 12 weeks, and
> probably not even 1 week.  But it would be a good first job.
>
> > o Scanning through proxies...
>
> This is a pretty big job, and not one I'd recommend starting out with.
>
> > > 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.
>
> That would be a great thing to work on.
>
> > > o [NSE] Support routing http requests through proxies.
> >      I think this is same idea(scanning through proxy)
>
> That would be good too (this is a much smaller job than the proxy
> scanning one discussed earlier).
>
> > > o [NSE] Security Review
>
> You really need to already have a lot of security background knowledge
> for this one (and a lot of Nmap internals knowledge would help too).
>
> > > o Zenmap should perhaps be able to print Nmap output (if not too much
> > >   of a pain to implement.)
>
> That would be an interesting one to look into (this is another one
> which should take well under 1 week).
>
> > > 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.
>
> That is another good one.  You need to be able to create a good
> interface for selecting NSE scripts to run with Zenmap (e.g. selecting
> categories, individual scripts, specifying arguments, etc.).
>
> > my knowledge and project time). Also I like to code some other useful
> > scripts in Lua.
>
> We always love to see new NSE scripts!
>
> Cheers,
> -F

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