Take this for what it is worth. This is the second generic reference to the "secret sauce" that I have seen in a week and the new code was only released 4 days ago. Oh how that makes me want to say the open-source zealots were dead right, but I digress.
My personal take of Dave King's question was something along the lines of release notes, known bugs, interface changes, configuration changes, etc. Tenable claims 3.0 was a complete re-write, so in a complete rewrite does the software operate at the user level 100% the same as it did in previous versions? Every other app I've seen go through major re-writes and that answer is a resounding NO. George Theall and Renaud Deraison do an excellent job of monitoring the list and responding in a timely manner, I applaud you. However in the way of documentation I have always thought Nessus was a bit lacking. The current on-line documentation consists of a faq, three pdf's, an install html, cron html, and two credential html's. The pdf's consist of a whopping 50 total pages. Oh and aside from the install html it looks like although 2.6 is still supported and open-source all on-line docs are rapidlly dissappering with the release of 3.0. Of course I could go to a book store and drop 30 - 60 dollars on a book, which seems to be the perferred method for Tenable to educate thier users on an otherwise free product. In short I don't beleive Dave King was asking for specifics of the code or the algorithims Tenable is using to increase perfomance. Let's face it the 6 bullets on the release announcement would hardly classify as change documentation. I.B. --- "George A. Theall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 05:38:15PM -0700, Dave King > wrote: > > > Is there any documentation for the changes in NASL > 3.0. > > There aren't any changes in the language itself, at > least that I'm aware > of. As for specific details on the speed-up, well, > as Ron Gula said > elsewhere, that's a "secret sauce" question. :-) > > George > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > I.B. "Say hello to all the apples on the ground" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
