NASL 3.0 Documentation

[Isac Balder]

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" <theall at tenablesecurity.com>
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
> -- 
> theall at tenablesecurity.com
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I.B.
"Say hello to all the apples on the ground"

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