Re: Ncrack development work

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

On 11/14/2013 12:00 PM, Nathaniel Pawelczyk wrote:
> Hello Dan,
>
>
>    Thank you for your reply.  If we were to focus our development 
> efforts on nmap, could you recommend a feature of nmap for us to work 
> on that involves data structures?  We are open to working on just 
> about anything.
>
> Thank you,
> NP
Nathaniel,

Pretty much any feature is going to *use* data structures. If you're 
looking to *design* new data structures, then writing NSE scripts and 
libraries is probably the way to go. The data structures in Nmap's C++ 
code are pretty well set, unless you can come up with a new major 
feature (probably not an easy task!).

One project that would probably involve some data structures work in C++ 
would be to implement the occasionally-asked-for port exclusion option. 
References to previous discussion/work on the subject are below. Note 
that the interaction between the -F, --top-ports, and -p options are not 
well-defined, so the project would have to begin by eliciting 
requirements and documenting how these options will interact.

If you want to discuss in a more informal setting, there are usually one 
or two core developers hanging out in Nmap's IRC channel on Freenode, 
irc://chat.freenode.net/#nmap

Dan

References:
A recent request for port exclusion option: 
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q1/275
Another related feature request illustrating the complications of option 
interaction: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q3/336
Yet another related feature request: 
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q4/288

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