nmap for Wintendo (NT/Win2K)

[Ken Williams <Ken.Williams () ey com>]

I'm sure that quite a few people will cringe when they read the subject line of this 
email, but it's been discussed before, and I've finally found a couple of real 
(and insane) MS programmers [read: not me!] who walk on water and keep 
insisting that they can easily tackle this absurd challenge.

Since we ("A Few E&Y Programmers Working Off-The-Clock, On Weekends, and 
Wanting To Give Back To the Security Community, in an Unofficial Capacity, Of 
Course") are just getting started with the "Nmap for Wintendo" project (porting nmap 
to NT/Win2K), we would like to work with anybody else who has attempted or is 
attempting a similar project.  Similarly, if you tried and gave up, I'd like to know why, 
and would be grateful for whatever code you might have - so we don't waste time 
repeating past failures, etc.

Any related comments or suggestions (and of course creative, humorous flames), 
are welcome, such as why Windows' TCP/IP stack is brain dead, or why the 
concept of this project is itself blasphemous, or even why the "Nmap for Wintendo" 
project would be detrimental to "our war against The Evil Empire".

Anything we might create will of course be distributed with full source code, and 
under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Thanks.

- kw

Disclaimer:  I am speaking only for myself, and not my employer.  
"Nmap for Wintendo" is NOT an official E&Y project; it is nothing more than me
calling the bluff of a programmer who has repeatedly claimed that he could easily 
port Nmap to Windows.


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