Dual AMD Operton + SLI graphics
Read an article in the Inquirer and heard about a new Tyan motherboard. Here is a picture. It’s based on the nVidia NForce 4 chipset. It has support for dual AMD Opterons and two PCIe slots for doing SLI. Not sure what the other specs are. Probably based on the Extended ATX footprint (13″ x [...]
sussen-sensor
I was thinking about sussen-sensor last night. Currently it’s not being worked on as I focus the network scanner portion of Sussen. I had envisioned the sensor as being able to do host-based intrustion detection and run OVAL tests. I’m now thinking that the sensor will run host based Sussen Security Tests. I’m planning to [...]
sussen-test-tester
Wrote a small command line tool this morning to allow me to easily excute security tests. It’s called sussen-test-tester. The idea is you can write a security test and test/debug it without having to always deal with sussen-scanner. To run it, you would: ./sussen-test-tester.exe ../sst-2004-0001/sst-2004-0001.dll localhost http 80 Note: I still have to write some [...]
Internationalization with .NET
After a couple of false starts, I’m now ready to develop world-ready applications . The way things work is basically you have a text file with name/value pairs for strings: testID = sst-2004-0001 You then use the program resgen to generate the resources file: $ resgen testinfo.txt Read in 4 resources from ‘testinfo.txt’ Writing resource [...]
Anatomy of a Sussen Security Test
Making good process developing security tests today. Here is an example of what a security test will look like: using System; using System.Collections; using Sussen.STF; public class Sst20040001 : ISecurityTest { private Service service_info; private ArrayList results; public void Run () { Sussen.STF.Http.Query httpQuery = new Sussen.STF.Http.Query (ser vice_info, “/qwe/qwe/index.html”, “java.io.IOException: .* [A-Z]:” , out [...]
fewnn update
Noticed a bit of traffic coming to check out fewnn. Felt kind of guilty since I haven’t done anything in a while so I spent an hour hacking on it. I manged to resolve some issues I had with it hanging when checking the available games from xmame. Still have a couple of more things [...]
Build System
Started today with working on the security test build system. Since I’m doing most of my development under Linux, I’m using the GNU autotools. I’ve briefly looked into NAnt as it works on both Windows and Linux. Might switch before the release of Sussen 0.10. In terms of directory structure, I was thinking about the [...]