Ah, my mistake. I completely missed that banner on the site.
Thanks for letting me know Gordon On Tue, 3 Mar 2026 at 01:56, Gordon Fyodor Lyon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adithya. Thanks for your interest, but we haven't participated in GSoC > since 2017. You might have missed the banner at the top of > https://nmap.org/soc/. > > Cheers, > Gordon > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 7:08 AM Adithya Shetty <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> Hi Nmap Development Team and Fotis, >> >> My name is Adithya, and I am a 4th-semester Computer Science student >> specializing in Cybersecurity. I am writing to express my strong interest >> in the "Password Security Wizard" project for GSoC 2026. >> >> Over the past few days, I have cloned the repository, set up my build >> environment, and have been digging into the nselib/brute.lua library and >> several of the -brute.nse scripts (specifically focusing on how >> ftp-brute.nse implements the Driver and Engine:new functions). >> >> Coming from a background of playing CTFs and writing Python/C++ tooling, >> I am very interested in the project's goal of improving the brute force >> authentication cracking ability of NSE. >> >> Before drafting my formal proposal, I wanted to ask a structural question >> regarding the performance optimization of the underlying NSE >> parallelization system: When looking to bring the NSE brute library's >> performance closer to a dedicated tool like Ncrack, are you currently >> prioritizing optimizations within the Lua engine's coroutine scheduling, or >> are you looking more toward optimizing the underlying C/C++ socket handling >> (Nsock) that the Lua scripts rely on? >> >> I am currently testing a few of the brute scripts against local >> vulnerable VMs to benchmark their current throughput. Any guidance on where >> the major bottlenecks currently reside would be highly appreciated. >> >> Thank you for your time and for maintaining such an incredible project. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Adithya B Shetty >> >> Github: adithyashetty39-lang >> _______________________________________________ >> Sent through the dev mailing list >> https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >> Archived at https://seclists.org/nmap-dev/ > >
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