Nmap Development: Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE

[Sven Klemm <sven () c3d2 de>]

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Fyodor wrote:
| On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:58:16PM +0200, Sven Klemm wrote:
|> Adding furthing functions is trivial.
|>
|
| Great.  If OpenSSH binding hash functions are merged in to /nmap, we
| need to remember to remove them from Nbase.  I don't want to have
| both.
|
|> I favor adding a to_hex method to the lua string class because this
|> will result in the least code duplication and will also be a very nice
|> addition as you can easily transform any string into a hexencoded
|> string. It is a change to liblua though but the change is quite
|> minimal and in my opinion extremely useful and as liblua is included
|> in the nmap code I think modifying it is okay.
|
| In general, modifying Liblua would cause us problems.  Right now, I
| think, Nmap uses an existing system Liblua if it exists in preference
| to the one included with Nmap.  That avoids bloating Nmap, and makes
| compilation faster too.  Similarly, Linux distributions and the like
| want to use existing shared libraries.  If we muck with Liblua, we'll
| have to change Nmap to always link with our hacked version, which
| would be unfortunate.

You are right, we shouldn't modify liblua. Adding to_hex() to string
is still possible without modifying liblua. So we could still do that.

Cheers,
Sven

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Sven Klemm
http://cthulhu.c3d2.de/~sven/

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