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This reminds me of the tool that HBGary was planning to write.[0] They thought that using assembly would make it a super-duper fastest-ever scanner! The author

This reminds me of the tool that HBGary was planning to write.[0] They thought that using assembly would make it a super-duper fastest-ever scanner! The author of this tool clearly doesn't have the same delusions, even noting that its about as fast as nmap. [0]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2315564 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2315564 Edit: Turns out that HBGary didn't mention writing it in assembly language but instead wanted to use LFSR (careful, they're mathy!!) to parallelize a scan and make it "FAST AS SHIT". I think I was getting confused with Steve Gibson's, another "security" blowhard, NanoProbe project.[1] [1] https://www.grc.com/np/np.htm https://www.grc.com/np/np.htm

ajross 15y ago
A network scanner is ... I/O bound? Surely you jest.
frou_dh 15y ago
Hey, Steve Gibson is a good guy. His long-running show is by far the most worthwhile on the fluff-based TWiT network.
- sciurus 15y ago
  The last time I saw a Steve Gibson discussion here, I bookmarked a few good links. http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/ http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/ http://radsoft.net/news/roundups/grc/ http://radsoft.net/news/roundups/grc/ http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/steve-gibson-is-a-fraud/ http://allthatiswrong.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/steve-gibson-...
  - mkr-hn 15y ago
    I stopped reading what he had to say after his campaign against raw sockets in Windows.
tptacek 15y ago
Incidentally, a lot of things are as fast as nmap or even faster in the common case, but fall down against large targets with firewalls. Everything's fast when all you have to do is hurl packets and bucket responses. It's a lot trickier when there are no responses.