Re: distributed computing project for pen-testing?

[thomas springer <tuevsec () gmx net>]

Nothing too difficult at all.

Nessus will be happy work distributed if you set up 10 hosts doing
different check-family an contact them in parallel to scan a given host.
Scanrand will be happy (and f*cking fast) if you fire up 1 listener and
10 hosts scanning huge subnets. Try with 4 or 5 senders and one listener
and put NMap to rest until its needed for some special scan or service
identification.

I once thought about operating a "Scanrand"-Cluster from different
providers - but do you know anybody who is both willing to
- pay for this service (running one host is around 10€ a month)
- take personal responsibility for the scans
?? - I dropped the idea.

The biggest problem of distributed work is probably that most of us
pentesters are highly individualized, paranoid and bound to ndas that
limit the possible amount of distribution or 3rd-party-work

tom


Craig Wright wrote:

> 2 hosts scanning a C class
>
> First scan 1-128 2nd 129-256
>
> Brute force - split the keys/passwords etc.
>
> I am missing something here as I do not see how you could possibly
> require grid computing to do anything other than brute forcing (and this
> is available already and has been for over a decade)
>
> What is so difficult about splitting the processes?
>
> Craig
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Jose [mailto:joel () firstlegion net]
>
> Sent: 28 March 2006 10:26
> To: pen-test () securityfocus com
> Subject: distributed computing project for pen-testing?
>
> does anyone have any idea or know of any current project that uses
> distributed computing power to work tools like nessus, nmap.. etc? wont
> it be feasible? Biologist have them to cure the latest disease, isnt it
> time we made use of it to cut time and costs? Many of my "thorough"
> testing is not possible because of time constraints.. i would be one of
> the happiest person in the world if such a thing ever existed!!..
>
>
>
> thanx,
> joel.
>
>
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