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Re: Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas?
From: Daniel Roethlisberger <daniel () roe ch>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 23:42:03 +0100
Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org> 2009-03-09:
Hi all. Google just began taking applications for organizations to participate in the 2009 Summer of Code! As you probably all know, the Nmap Project has benefited greatly from participating in that program for the past four years. I even wrote a blog entry for them about it: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/11/nmaps-fourth-gsoc-success-stories-and.html One of the most important requirements of a successful SoC is coming up with a great "ideas page" which lists summer projects that students can apply for. They can always come up with their own completely new ideas (and we encourage that sort of creativity), but most choose ideas from our list or at least start with one for inspiration. You can see our 2008 ideas page here: http://nmap.org/GoogleGrants.html So if anyone has an idea for Nmap (including Ndiff, Ncat, or Zenmap), please speak up!
Off the top of my hat: o Full IPv6 support in every aspect of Nmap. I am seeing IPv6 on the rise, already over 50% of my personal incoming email is received over IPv6! The available v4 pool wont last much longer than perhaps three years. Nmap should get ready for the future as well and implement comprehensive support for IPv6. o SCTP based OS detection; would require the student to find practical differences in major SCTP stacks first, and then implement and test that. Major hurdle to make this a success would be the required or at least desired access to as many proprietary SCTP stacks as possible. o Efficient network topology mapping. Give Nmap (or Zenmap or even a separate tool) a large network range or multiple ranges, and it will automatically and intelligently determine the network topology with a minimal number of probes / in minimal scan time, i.e. don't do a full traceroute on each and every IP address. There are many ways to cut down the number of probes required versus the naïve approach, including making educated guesses at subnetting, and intelligently verify those using a minimal number of probes (think binary search through possible/likely subnet layouts).
It does not have to be such a big project that it would take all summer--we usually sponsor several folks who focus on many smaller tasks instead. I'd love to hear about any NSE scripts you'd find useful, Nmap enhancements which would make your job easier, etc. This is your chance to dream up whatever would make Nmap better for you, and there is a chance we can get Google to pay for someone to actually implement it in code! You can also look at the Nmap TODO (nmap/docs/TODO in svn) for many ideas under consideration. If you find something there you really like, let us know on the nmap-dev list and we'll be more likely to list it on the ideas page. I plan to write the new ideas page in the next few days because applications are due to Google on Friday. Cheers, Fyodor
-- Daniel Roethlisberger http://daniel.roe.ch/ _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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- Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas? Fyodor (Mar 09)
- Re: Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas? Ron (Mar 09)
- Re: Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas? Daniel Roethlisberger (Mar 09)
- Re: Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas? Kris Katterjohn (Mar 09)
- Re: Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas? Daniel Roethlisberger (Mar 11)
- Re: Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas? Michael Pattrick (Mar 09)
- Re: Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas? ithilgore (Mar 10)
- Re: Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas? Daniel Roethlisberger (Mar 11)
- Re: Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas? Henri Salo (Mar 14)
- Re: Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas? David Fifield (Mar 14)
- Re: Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas? Daniel Roethlisberger (Mar 14)
- Re: Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas? David Fifield (Mar 14)
- Re: Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas? Daniel Roethlisberger (Mar 14)
- Re: Google/Nmap SoC 2009 Project Ideas? Kris Katterjohn (Mar 09)