Hello Folks, I'm redirecting the e-mail that Fyodor sent to nmap-dev mailing list announcing their students. As you may already know, Umit uses nmap for scanning, and Fyodor has played an important role on Umit development in 2005 and 2006 while he mentored me on developing it. Since then we've always tried to help each other, and I'm glad that they always remember to mention our students, although I never had that sesibility of doing the same. So, in order to repair my rudeness, I would like to plead you all to join me welcoming Insecure.org students for GSoC 2009! We wish the best for Insecure.org and Nmap!
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fyodor <[email protected]> Date: Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:23 PM Subject: Introducing the 2009 Nmap/Google Summer of Code Team! To: [email protected] Hello everyone. The Nmap Project is pleased to announce that Google has sponsored six student developers to spend this summer enhancing the Nmap Security Scanner and related projects! If you enjoy the Zenmap GUI, Ncat, Ndiff, or the Nmap Scripting Engine, then you're using features developed in a large part by previous Summer of Code students. Our last four years were so successful that Google asked us to write an article for their blog: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/11/nmaps-fourth-gsoc-success-stories-and.html While previous SoC results were great, we have an ambitious agenda and hope to accomplish even more this year! We're in the "community bonding" phase now and full-time coding begins on May 23. I'm delighted to introduce this 2009 team: Patrick Donnelly is already well-known to those who follow Nmap development. He was a successful SoC student in 2008 and has been a steady contributor since then. His role is the NSE Infrastructure Manager, so he will improve the code and libraries that make NSE work, and help make design decisions to direct future NSE development. Patrick has many ideas for improvement, and his experience with Nmap and Lua make him the right man for the job. This fall he will attend graduate school at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA. He will be mentored by David Fifield, who was himself a SoC student in 2007. David then distinguished himself as a mentor for three students last year, and we're happy to have him back to mentor another three in 2009! Ithilgore, a fourth-year Computer Science and Engineering student at the University of Patras in Greece, has a long history in the security and Nmap communities. He has written numerous open source security tools which you can find at http://sock-raw.org/projects.html, and he also sent the most detailed Nmap bug report/analysis we've ever seen (http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q4/0543.html). Fyodor will mentor him in starting a brand new project: a high-speed network authentication cracker named Ncrack. Read more about the proposal at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q2/0238.html. Luis MartinGarcia is also working on a brand new tool--a raw packet sending and analysis tool named Nping. Think of it as Hping on steroids as you read the proposal and discussion at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q2/0314.html. We consider Luis perfect for creating Nping since he previously created another impressive open source security tool: the Adabada Knocking Suite (http://www.aldabaknocking.com). Luis is finishing a Computer Engineering degree at the University Carlos III Madrid and also pursuing a master's degree in Information Security at Open University of Catalonia, Spain. He will be mentored by Fyodor. Josh Marlow is a feature creeper with a specialization in the Nmap core and Zenmap. Josh wrote a proposal for the development of an Nmap library, so some of his work will be directed towards making that possible. He is a master's student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in the USA. He has a broad knowledge of Unix, having reimplemented several standard utilities. He will be mentored by David Fifield. Venkat Sanaka is a feature creeper with a specialization in Ncat and Ndiff. He has been using Nmap for a few years and this is his first time getting involved in developing an open-source project. He is in his third year at BITS (Birla Institute of Technology & Science), Pilani in Goa, India. He has a specialization in networking and network security, which perfectly fits the requirements for Ncat. He will be mentored by David Fifield. João Batista Correa Gomes Moreira hails from Brazil, where he is seeking a master's degree in Computer Science at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas. His focus is writing scripts and libraries for the Nmap Scripting Engine, with a major emphasis on http/web related work. Web-related improvements include a spidering library+scripts, URL grinder, cookie support, HTTP keepalive and pipelining support, enabling POST/HEAD requests, and more! João impressed us with his enthusiasm and by writing his first NSE script before even being accepted into the program. He will be mentored by Fyodor. Please join us in welcoming this new team of Nmap SoC students! Most of the development will be done on the nmap-dev list, where everybody is encouraged to participate in coding, suggesting ideas, testing, etc. With a team like this, we can't help but expect great things for the summer of 2009! I'd also like to offer big thanks to Google for putting another 5 million dollars (over all projects) into open source development this summer! Here are the GSoC teams for all 7 security projects: EFF/Tor (6 students) http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/eff FreeNet (5 students): http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/freenet Honeynet Project (9 students): http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/honeynet Nmap (6 students) http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/nmap OpenSSH (1 student) http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/openssh OpenSwan/Xelerance (5 students): http://socghop.appspot.com/org/home/google/gsoc2009/xelerance Cheers, Fyodor _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org -- Adriano Monteiro Marques http://adriano-marques.blogspot.com http://www.umitproject.org http://www.pythonbenelux.org "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." - George Burns ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! 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