On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 14:31 +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: > the intention is not to introduce LUA as another language for OpenVAS. > The intention is to easily add the existing NSEs into the OpenVAS NVT Feed, > thus to provide users with a uniform interface for running NASL, OVAL and NSE > scripts.
I understand all that. Why this issue was little confusing for me is because the big portion of the NSE repository is already covered by OV/NASL, at least the relevant part. Other scripts we could port to NASL without much pain. I'm not sure how big/broad will NSE repository become in the future but I seriously doubt that it will reach OVs. Taking all that into consideration, I concluded that you gentlemen wish to complement NASL with Lua/NSE and thus extend both the OVs and NMAPs plugin rep. Otherwise the gain/pain ration for simply using NSEs written by NMAP gang would be too small (IMHO of course). > NASL is more powerful than NSE because of its API and the cleverness of the > scanner e.g. regarding interdependencies of NASL scritps. > I agree, missed to take that into consideration. +1 for NASL :) Thanks for all the replies. Regards, Dražen. -- Laboratory for Systems and Signals Department of Electronic Systems and Information Processing Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing University of Zagreb _______________________________________________ Openvas-plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-plugins
