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RE: Changing file formats

from [Paul Melson] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: RE: Changing file formats
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:09:24 -0400 
Risk, Solution, etc. are all arbitrary text inside of the desc field of
individual NASL files.  As far as I can tell there's not even code that
checks to see if that information exists within desc.  It would not be a
simple task to modify Nessus (and all of the nearly 10-thousand individual
NASL plugins) to separate those fields.

PaulM

-----Original Message-----
Subject: Changing file formats

All,
I've long been frustrated by the NBE/NSR format of Nessus reports, and the
XML format isn't much better.  I know I've seen this on the list before, but
is there any way to formalize the structure of the data portion of the
results, such that items like "Risk Factor", "Solution" and "Description"
were individual tokens, as opposed to highly nested (and arbitrarily placed)
elements within the same token?

Is this the sort of thing that can be easily changed via a patch, or is the
format so deeply wound into the product that it is too complicated to
extricate?  


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