Re: Contributing to Nmap development

[ithilgore <ithilgore.ryu.l () gmail com>]

Henri Salo wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:18:26 +0530
> Ravipriya Thushara <rthushara () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Dear sir,
> >
> >        I'm a undergraduate student from University of Moratuwa, Sri
> > Lanka. Im studying in my 3rd academic year (I'm studying a 4 year
> > degree program on Computer Science and Engineering). In this academic
> > year I have to join to an open source project and contribute to it
> > for 12 weeks. I can choose any open source project based on my
> > interest. My instructors will evaluate my work at the end.
> >        I'm interested lot in computer and network security and I'm
> > hoping to do my project related on that. So I think Nmap is a great
> > place to join and work with. But I want some help from you to
> > understand the current development status of Nmap and what you are
> > expecting to do. I have considerable amount of knowledge on Computer
> > security and Networking. Also I'm CCNA certified recently. I have
> > being using Nmap for about 6 months. I'm experienced in C/C++
> > programming too. So please  send me some help me with some starting
> > points to start with. Thank you.
> >          Ravipriya Thushara.
>
> http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q1/0042.html "How to start reading
> the Nmap source code"
> http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q2/0173.html "Design of Nmap"
> http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q1/0566.html "Getting started with
> Nmap development"
>
> ---
> Henri Salo

I would also add:

* http://www.bamsoftware.com/wiki/Nmap/HomePage  
David Fifield's excellent notes on Nmap.

* http://sock-raw.org/nmap-ncrack.html
Some of my own notes.

-- ithilgore


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