Ann: Plan for major GUI re-design and other improvements of nessus
Jan-Oliver Wagner <[email protected]>
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Dear nessus developers, the German BSI (Federal Office for Information Security) contracted us (the companies Intevation and DN-Systems Enterprise Internet Solutions) to develop an easy-to-use security analysis system as Free Software under GNU GPL additionally localized for German language. BSI wants this solution primarily for its own purposes and for other authorities for which they are some kind of service provider. Our plan is to not develop a system anew but to build upon Nessus instead. This gives us now the opportunity to contribute all developments to the Nessus project. Thus note that BSI did not contract for Nessus development officially. It just happens that our works can be incorporated. Please keep BSI's role low - I do not want the press or other people to draw a wrong picture. The title of our project is "BOSS". The core features planned are: - I18N (gettext) for client and server including full translation into German (but excluding a translation of the plugins for now) - re-design the client GUI and extend it with e.g. menus, toolbar and tree-structure for input/output data. - migrate to GTK2 - make sure the client works on Microsoft Windows as well - extended report generation (PDF) Furthermore we plan to create another component that we call SLAD, Security Local Auditing Daemon. SLAD can be installed on GNU/Linux systems and run tools like John-the-Ripper, chkrootkit, virus scanners or tripwire. A module for nessusd will make the management of this available for the nessus client. We will do all developments openly and welcome any discussion, comments and suggestions from the current development team. So far, we would like to avoid our project to be announced to the press. We prefer to have solid first results first. Note that we also contracted Renaud for supporting us in conceptual and technical questions, i.e. to tell us what could go into main development or what would be rejected. All the best Jan (BOSS Project Coordinator) -- Jan-Oliver Wagner http://intevation.de/~jan/ Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ _______________________________________________ Nessus-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus-devel