Re: REgarding my proposal for Gsoc 2011

[aditya <nauty.me04 () gmail com>]

Sir,

OS detection in itself is a project in itself, atleast from my standards
after going through the nmap code and am really looking forward to a chance
to port IPv4 to IPv6 including the features which i thought of including in
my vulnerability scanner.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:30 PM, aditya <nauty.me04 () gmail com> wrote:

> I request the mentors to please comment on my idea/proposal so as to know
> how should i proceed.Please its very important
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:23 AM, aditya <nauty.me04 () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Sir,
> >
> > I was actually aiming to achieve OS detection feature in IPv6 protocol,
> > for that i will have to
> >
> > 1)research out a module to make it a a full proof detection perhaps what i
> > was planning was to work on the fingerprinting database
> > as to what makes an OS detection different from the other.
> >
> > 2)I will actually have to start working at the very ground levels , trying
> > to work on what makes it different between the windows and linux and its
> > distributions
> >
> > 3)Perhaps i was planning to import the national vulnerability database
> > into the detection like for example ubuntu(linux)
> > http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search-results?query=ubuntu&search_type=all&cves=on
> > , which has some vulnerabilities which are very specific to that OS only and
> > not any other.This would be done on real time , even trying to reduce the
> > time lag which Nmap takes for a normal scanning.
> >
> > 4)Thus i was trying to refine the way Nmap could possibly use its database
> > as to refine its catch on OS detection feature.
> >
> > Please comment..
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:19 AM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 01:02:11PM +0530, aditya wrote:
> > > > Sir/Madam
> > > >
> > > > I actually was much interested in OS detection in IPv6 based
> > > > systems/networks. What led me to take up this topic was i found that
> > > when i
> > > > was using Nmap for multiple scanning the same host, a lot of times i
> > > came
> > > > across that there was a different OS which was detected , and that got
> > > me
> > > > into a very messed up situation as i being a penetration tester was
> > > very
> > > > much dependant on the authenticity of Nmap
> > > >
> > > > Hence i really want to take up this topic and contribute to Nmap and
> > > open
> > > > source community so as to develop a full proof OS detection module for
> > > IPv6
> > > > support which would help a lot of penetration testers.
> > > >
> > > > Please let me know how else i can improve my project, looking forward
> > > for
> > > > mentors.
> > >
> > > You need to provide more information about your project. As it is, you
> > > haven't told us anything to comment on. You need to state your ideas
> > > here, not only on the google-melange site, because many more people can
> > > see them here.
> > >
> > > Please double-check the page at http://nmap.org/soc/apply.html and make
> > > sure you've answered all the questions we require of a proposal.
> > >
> > > David Fifield
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > Aditya Balapure
>
>
> --
> Regards
> Aditya


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Regards
Aditya Balapure
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