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Re: [OT] Recreating nmap
From: William McVey <wam () cisco com>
Date: 25 Nov 2002 06:25:18 -0600
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 11:12, Gary Stewart wrote:
Do you, as developers, think you would be able to recreate nmap or a reduced version of it from memory?
Sure, it'd not be at all impossible to re-implement the functionality of nmap. For that matter, a lot (most?) of the functionality of nmap already exists in other tools (strobe, hping, udp_scanner, libsf, etc). In my opinion, nmap's true value comes from the integration of various techniques distributed among a lot of other tools into one consistent interface. That being said, the OS fingerprint database is the result of a LOT of contributions submitted over the course of years. Reimplementing that would take quite a bit of time, work, and access to more resources than any one person probably has (legitimate) access to. But the hard part there is recreating the 'data' not the 'code'. -- William --------------------------------------------------------------------- For help using this (nmap-dev) mailing list, send a blank email to nmap-dev-help () insecure org . List run by ezmlm-idx (www.ezmlm.org).
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