* Goran Licina [ 3. Apr 2009]: > Hi, > > We decided to work on following plugins (for a start): > > os_fingerprint.nasl
Just my two cents: I think OS fingerprinting is something we should use nmap for. nmap does an excellent job in that area and IMHO it would be a waste of time to reinvent the wheel here. Nmap adoption is currently hindered by the fact that we need to spawn a separate nmap for each host since there is currently no practical way to share information between host scans or on network level. This is something we would like to address, but I don't think we have the necessary resources for that in the short term. If we were to develop an NASL based OS detection in the meantime, we should at the very least make sure to use nmaps OS fingerprint DB (available at http://nmap.org/data/nmap-os-fingerprints, GPL). Any thoughts on this issue? Regards, Michael -- Michael Wiegand | OpenPGP: D7D049EC | Intevation GmbH - www.intevation.de Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück, Germany | AG Osnabrück, HR B 18998 Geschäftsführer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner
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