[Openvas-discuss] Ideas and wishes for future improvements ofOpenVAS

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Friday 18 May 2007 05:24, Oliver Day wrote:
> I would like to see the nasl files go away in favor of xml based
> files. Or at the very least condense groups of nasl into a single
> file (e.g. gentoo_all.nasl, gentoo.xml would be my preference). There
> are just too many files in that directory at this point.

I also though about condensing e.g. all the debian local security checks
into few files (maybe for each year). I am not sure, but this might speed up
checks as well.
But on the other hand this means to have one plugins that tests for
x hundred CVEs. Would this cause trouble in some form?
Which way is the best from the very practical side? 

> If we had a database backend then the scripts could just exist in that
> form (which makes having an xml file to represent the database in flat
> file mode even more ideal) and would make our fork more functional
> then Tenable.

IMHO, the 'xml' approach should be elaborate in more detail. I do not
fully understand the gains from this yet. I guess there are some,
but they should be better arguable. Any step away from NASL needs
a very good rationale.

Best

	Jan
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