Re: [NSE] SSL Fingerprint Matching

[Toni Ruottu <toni.ruottu () iki fi>]

Disk space is cheap, so we should not worry about disk space, right?.
Nmap releases are compressed, so having a compressed file in there
does not make it smaller. I am not sure if compressing the file would
help.

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Mak Kolybabi <mak () kolybabi com> wrote:
> On 2011-01-06 22:01, Toni Ruottu wrote:
> > Nice work. Why are we worried about the fingerprint file size? Nmap all ready
> > ships with operating system detection and software version identifying
> > databases. How big do we expect the SSL fingerprint file to become?
>
> Depends on how much info we want to include with each fingerprint. Right now,
> I've trimmed it down to the minimum of just saying where it came from
> originally, removing all the model/manufacturer/version info.
>
> The other thing that could make the file size balloon is including the Debian
> SSL blacklist. I believe those are in the tens of megabytes.
>
> --
> Mak Kolybabi
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