Re: What Programmming Language?

From: Marcel Grunauer (marcel.gruenauer@chello.at)
Date: 04/12/02 

Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:01:06 +0200
From: Marcel Grunauer <marcel.gruenauer@chello.at>
To: "security-basics@securityfocus.com" <security-basics@securityfocus.com>

Am 4/11/02 12:09 PM schrieb "security@fastmail.fm" unter
<security@fastmail.fm>:

> What programming language/s is/are used for
> developing a software firewall like ZoneAlarm or NIDS
> like Snort or Scanners like netcat, nmap etc.?

C, generally. Though it's entirely possible to write non-time-critical
network programs with Perl. Of special interest is the Net::Pcap module,
which is an interface to libpcap.

Marcel

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