Re: [GSOC] Nmap exclude list implementation

[Jacek Wielemborek <d33tah () gmail com>]

W dniu 03.03.2015 o 20:00, Harshil Lodhi pisze:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was going through the GSOC ideas "Performance/Optimization Specialist"
> one. In their its mentioned that current implementation of exclude list is
> not a good one. It takes order of the size of the list. David particularly
> mentioned about implementing the lookup using BDD.
>
>
> The link for the paper doesn't seem to work for me. I searched for the
> topic and read about it. One of the alternatives that we can consider is
> Patricia/Radix trees. They seemed to be more widely used than BDDs.
> Following is a highly cited research paper for the same.
> http://ece.ut.ac.ir/classpages/F83/Advanced%20Computer%20Networks/PAPERS/LOOKUP/routing.pdf
>
> I am very much interested in this position and in the script developer
> position. I have been using the proxy module of Nmap for the past 3 years
> to find working proxies inside my university campus during nighttime when
> the main internet is shut down.
>
> Waiting for your feedback on this.
>
>
>
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Hello,

I like this idea, but just to make sure - how did you pick this
particular problem? I'm asking to make sure you plan to make some
performance measurements before you start optimising random parts of
Nmap functionality.

Cheers,
Jacek

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