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Ncat is now integrated with Nmap in our latest SVN revision. His biggest project has been finishing up Ncat, our advanced Netcat replacement (which began as a 2005 SoC project by Chris Gibson).

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Kris Katterjohn, who already had hundreds of useful Nmap patches to his name, returned for 2008 to write hundreds more! There is no way I can list everything he did here, particularly as his contributions ranged all over the map from writing NSE libraries (such as the username/password module and the standardized communication library) to improving Windows support (adding IPv6 and OpenSSL).

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But his crowning accomplishment was the NSEDoc system, which uses special comments and variables in script and library code to generate a comprehensive documentation portal. He added mutex support and an NSE Standard Library, fixed some serious bugs, and rewrote and optimized a substantial amount of code (particularly the nse_init system).

Patrick Donnelly made substantial NSE infrastructure improvements.

He also made numerous improvements to the command entry field for people who like to type Nmap command directly, while still benefiting from Zenmap's visual and searchable presentation of results. For example, he added a cancel button for aborting a scan in progress without clearing the Nmap output, and he added context-sensitive help to the many dozens of options in the Profile Editor.

Jurand Nogiec also worked with David on Zenmap, and was responsible for many key UI improvements which now seem obvious in hindsight.

Topology draws a beautiful interactive diagram like this of the discovered network: They made huge usability and stability improvements, but the pinnacle of their summer achievement was clearly the scan aggregation and topology features! Scan aggregation allows you to conduct multiple scans at different times and add them seamlessly to your existing results.

Vladimir Mitrovic spent the summer improving the Zenmap GUI, under David Fifield's expert mentorship.

Now let's look in detail at our 2008 SoC accomplishments: This year we expanded to three mentors, all of whom (except for me) were former SoC students. We've never had a 2nd year (or more) student fail. In other words, our success rate has increased every single year! I like to credit improved processes and interaction based on what we've learned before, but it also helps that we invite the best students back in later years. Both of them have been prolific developers ever since then.Įnough with the history-let's take a look at our 2008 results! I'm happy to report that we had an 86% (6 out of 7) success rate. This Summer also introduced David Fifield to the Nmap project and was the first SoC for Kris Katterjohn. This year we formally integrated Zenmap into the Nmap build system and packages, making massive improvements along the way.

I also made the Nmap SVN server public and provided commit access to the students. The remaining two 2006 students were mentored by Diman Todorov, who created NSE as a 2006 SoC student. For example, I took only 4 students compared to 10 the previous year.

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In 2007 ( full writeup), our success rate grew again to 83% (5 of 6)! I attribute part of the success to me being less of a control freak. I again mentored the students myself without providing SVN access. We also finished and integrated the 2nd generation OS detection system, and Zenmap (Umit) continued to improve. It allows users to write (and share) simple scripts to automate a wide variety of networking tasks. Perhaps the most exciting project was the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE), which has become one of Nmap's most compelling features.

In 2006 ( full writeup), I had a better idea of what works and what doesn't and was able to improve the success rate to 80% (8 out of 10). Nmap didn't even have a public SVN tree back then. I was the mentor for all 10 students, and I had them all send me patches rather than providing SVN access. Doug Hoyte first made major contributions that summer, and continues helping to this day.

In 2005 ( detailed writeup), 70% (7 out of 10) students succeeded, and they tackled some wonderful projects! This year we begin work on our new Zenmap GUI (then named Umit), Ncat network communication utility, and 2nd generation OS detection system. I finally have time to reflect on these last four years, what GSoC has brought us, and the lessons it has taught us. The Nmap Security Scanner Project was honored to participate in our fourth Google Summer of Code(tm)! The pencils-down date was two months ago, but so much code was produced that we're just now finishing the integration process. By Gordon 'Fyodor' Lyon, author of the Nmap Project and GSoC Mentor

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