Re: GSoC 2011 - IPv6 idea

[Linh Vu Hong <ling.vh4 () gmail com>]

Hi David,

Currently I was busy with my study at my school so I did not follow up with the conversation. I attached my proposal 
for the project of adding IPv6 OS detection feature. Please take a look and give me some comments. 
Thanks!
Best regards,

Linh

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Apr 1, 2011 kl. 9:15 AM skrev David Fifield:

> On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 05:02:30AM +0200, Linh Vu Hong wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am a master student at DTU - Denmark. I just found the information
> > about the GSoC 2011, and I am interested in adding IPv6 features into
> > Nmap especially the first 4 features which require research in the
> > field. Last semester I have worked on some security aspects of IPv6
> > Network Discovery Protocol and really want continue to my research on
> > IPv6. 
>
> Hi! Thanks for your interest. If you haven't seen them yet, please check
> out these pages:
>       http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/home/google/gsoc2011/nmap
>       http://nmap.org/soc/
>       http://nmap.org/soc/GeneralRequirements.html
>       http://nmap.org/soc/apply.html
>
> > For the OS detection feature I found a technical report of Frederic
> > Beck, Olivier Festor and Isabelle Chrisment and a thesis of
> > Eleftherios Nerakis about OS fingerprinting based on IPv6 Network
> > Discovery Protocol. These papers are published quite long ago
> > (2006-2007), so I wonder if anyone has researched on and implemented
> > those techniques in Nmap? 
>
> These techniques are not implemented in Nmap, however we are aware of
> the paper. You can see some initial ideas and code regarding IPv6 by
> running this command:
>       svn co --username guest --password "" svn://svn.insecure.org/nmap-exp/david/ipv6
> See the file notes.txt in the ipv6 directory. If you like, please
> comment on the implementation of raw sending in ipv6.c.
>
> > Furthermore, do I have to put exactly how I am going to do to add the
> > IPv6 features into Nmap? Because some features require research, so at
> > this time I may have not the clear idea of the solution. 
>
> We understand that these tasks require much research. You should include
> a timeline that shows how much time you expect to devote to research
> versus implementation.
>
> David Fifield

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