Re: [gsoc-2014] Presentation

[Jacek Wielemborek <d33tah () gmail com>]

25/02/2014 13:33:09 Israel Leiva <israel.leiva () usach cl>:
> Hi!

Hello!

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> First of all, congratulations for being accepted once more at gsoc, and to
> be honest, it wasn't any surprise ;)
>
> My name is Israel Leiva, I'm a computer science student at University of
> Santiago, Chile. I have experience with Perl, C, C++, PHP and Python and
> I'm currently learning Lua. My main interests are computer security, free
> software and programming competitions. More detailed info in
> http://ileiva.github.io/about/
>
> I've been looking the ideas page for this year and I'm very interested in
> the NSE script developer position. Last week I sent my first script to the
> dev ML (I made some mistakes in the output comments, though) and I'm trying
> to get fresh ideas to practice and create more scripts. Here is where I
> have some doubts: how do I make a proposal for this? I understand that this
> would involve more than just working on a simple script, so I'm not quite
> sure how to start. Looking at the script ideas page, I believe I can work
> on some ideas like the http-mirror or refactor the http-spider (it works
> quite slow compared to nmap itself, in my experience). Could any of these
> ideas be considered for the NSE script developer position?

Last year, George Chatzisofroniou got accepted as a HTTP NSE script developer, 
mentored by Patrick Donnelly. I'd ask George how did he manage to convince the 
Nmap team to get accepted. Generally, your proposal should have a tentative 
weekly timeline, which means that you should already have a couple of ideas to 
justify 15 weeks of work.
 
> I've also looked at some community ideas and I'm interested in 'bringing
> lua to Ncat, part II' and the nmaprc.lua, particularly because I started to
> learn Lua when coding with the NSE and I found it fun and useful :) I've
> just read these ideas from the wiki so I'll try to understand these ideas
> and in the next days try to make some proposals.

These two are my ideas - while David told me that he'd be interested in 
"Bringing lua to Ncat, part II", I give no guarantee on nmaprc.lua as it might 
need some further discussion.

As for "Bringing lua to Ncat, part II" - have a look at ncat-sa-take2 branch 
to see where my project stopped last year. Should you have any questions about 
hacking this code, please ask them on the mailing list and I'll be more than 
happy to answer them. I'd really love to see this project carry on! :) On the 
other hand, Fyodor mentioned that he might prefer proposals related to Nmap 
core this year, so you might need to put quite a bit of effort in turning this 
proposal into a convincing document.

> Any feedback or guidelines on any of these ideas are very welcome and
> apreciated!
>
> Cheers.

Yours,
Jacek Wielemborek

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