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		electrum on March 12, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HBGary planned to "blow the balls off Nmap" > There is, for what it's worth, very little reason why the best scanner need be written in C. What about all the packet manipulation code? Bit twiddling tends to be difficult in other languages.

tptacek on March 12, 2011 | [–]

Bit twiddling is much easier in other languages than in C. And virtually every mainstream language has a pcap binding for the packet reading and injection (although a good straight-socket scanner could still give nmap a run for its money).

rwmj on March 12, 2011 | [–]

I give you https://code.google.com/p/bitstring/

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