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Re: Paros alternative

To: "Serg B." <sergicles@gmail.com>, Paul Sebastian Ziegler <psz@observed.de>
Subject: Re: Paros alternative
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Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:36:48 -0600
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On 4/13/07 6:45 AM, "Serg B." <sergicles@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know of any "pen-test" tool that does an alternative to what
> you have already mentioned (within the Open Source realm any way)
> however you may want to look at Selenium
> (http://www.openqa.org/selenium/). This is a JS web application
> testing tool, essentially it is just a harness that you feed small JS
> test scripts and the rest is taken care for you. Therefore, if you
> know what you are doing and don't mind coding a little Selenium is
> worth a try.
> 
> On 12/04/07, Paul Sebastian Ziegler <psz@observed.de> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I stumbled across Paros quite a while ago.
>> It has been really nice to work with, providing an easy "click and run"
>> interface. However there are some limitations to it that are becoming
>> more and more obvious.
>> 
>> 1) It has not been updated for half a year. (Ok, this is probably the
>> least significant problem.)
>> 
>> 2) Java is great for platform independence and stuff - but its just
>> slow. You don't even have to scan across an intranet to find this out.
>> Even if you scan through a custom 2000/200 kbps line the limiting factor
>> will be your processor and not your bandwidth. (2Ghz Pentium M - results
>> may vary)
>> 
>> 3) It lacks deep configurations. Of course you can set all your basic
>> stuff, but you have no access to the routines called afterwards unless
>> you hack up the source yourself. Now again this is normal for a click
>> and run tool.
>> 
>> 4) The logs it creates are _huge_. 2GB and more are not seldom at all.
>> This sometimes raises startup and resume times to 30+ minutes.
>> 
>> 5) some more. This is not a flame. I actually like Paros. Just wanted to
>> sketch what troubled my mind.
>> 
>> This is why I started searching for alternatives.
>> Now - as you might expect - asking google for "paros alternatives"
>> mostly turns up Greek villages. That's not really what I'm after.
>> 
>> I found a few good programs but they all lack some key features.
>> For example:
>> 
>> I) WebScarab
>> (http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_WebScarab_Project)
>> Really nice for packet-manipulation and manual fuzzing of webapps.
>> However it lacks standardized tests and automation.
>> 
>> II) Nikto (http://www.cirt.net/code/nikto.shtml)
>> Mostly pattern matching without strong generic tests for XSS, CRLF or
>> SQL-Injection
>> 
>> III) Burpsuite (http://portswigger.net/suite/)
>> Another really nice tool. Here you get all the options.
>> However automation is missing up until now.
>> 
>> 
>> So this is my question:
>> Does anybody (know|use|develop) a (tool|script|app) that carries out
>> partially or completely automated tests on webapplications, runs on
>> linux or bsd, is open source and copes with some of the points given above?
>> 
>> If so, please let me know.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance
>> 
>> Many Greetings
>> Paul
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