OpenVAS: Few ideas for development/contest

[Jan-Oliver Wagner <jan-oliver.wagner () intevation de>]

On Freitag, 29. August 2008, Vlatko Kosturjak wrote:
> > I think we should expand OpenVAS to support two more plugin/scripts
> > formats:
> > - OVAL:             
> >     http://oval.mitre.org/repository/download/index.html
> > - NES scripts
> >     http://nmap.org/book/nse.html
> One more format to support:
> - NBIN: NBIN is compiled .nasl script which nessus started to support
> from version 3.x
> http://list.nessus.org/pipermail/nessus-devel/2008-April/000007.html
> (Due to unopen specificatin, this could be hard one.)
I'd rather prefer not to implement/support this format at all.
It was invented to make things opaque.
OpenVAS should consequently follow the concept
of transparency.

Let the proprietary folks do proprietary stuff and leave
their customers unclear about what the tools are doing
with root grants and unclear about source code quality.
We do better.

Best

        Jan

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