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Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus
From: Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 16:25:53 -0400
Hello Jacky, On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Jacky Jack <jacksonsmth698 () gmail com> wrote:
Hi Note in advance - no offense to nmap folks. Let me tell what I feel. Some of NMmap Scripts are now moving on for vulnerability scanning. Those scripts are a smallest subset of what Nessus is now doing. I have no idea why NSE folks write scripts that re-invent the wheel. Although I appreciate that we have two options to validate the results, a great deal of time will be wasted if NSE folks are writing/converting Nessus plugins to NSEs. Please explain me so that I can put in your shoes.
Couple reasons I'll write down which are by no means exhaustive: (a) Scripts/Libraries are written in Lua instead of a proprietary format ("scripting language") that Nessus uses. They can conceivably be used outside of Nmap in custom (but GPL compliant) software. (b) It's fun and challenging. (People don't write these scripts because it's work.) I'm sure there are many other good reasons. I'm not at all familiar with how Nessus's plugins work. I would think Nmap's NSE is far more robust and featureful allowing for more interesting things to be done. -- - Patrick Donnelly _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
Current thread:
- NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Jacky Jack (Jul 29)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Ron (Aug 02)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Patrick Donnelly (Aug 02)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Dražen Popović (Aug 03)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Djalal Harouni (Aug 03)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Jacky Jack (Aug 04)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Jan-Oliver Wagner (Aug 05)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus DePriest, Jason R. (Aug 05)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Jan-Oliver Wagner (Aug 05)
- Re: NMap Scripts Vs Nessus Jacky Jack (Aug 07)