RE: How to correctly modify nmap.nasl?

"John Scherff" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
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Reading that link should be a prereq to joining this list.  That same
thread comes around as often and as virulently as a herpes outbreak (not
that I would know). 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Renaud Deraison
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Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:24 AM
To: Mercer, Jeff C - Raleigh, NC
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: How to correctly modify nmap.nasl?


On May 8, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Mercer, Jeff C - Raleigh, NC wrote:

> Considering how wildly popular Nmap is, how widely used it is and the 
> many advantages to Nmap, I've never understood why Tenable Security is

> so dead-set against it.

This has been explained ad-nauseam :

http://www.nessus.org/documentation/index.php?doc=nmap-usage


We're not "dead-set against it", it's just that nmap's design is not
compatible with our design.


				-- Renaud
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