Chapter 11
NASL
Introduction
When I initially announced the use of the Nessus Attack Scripting Language (NASL) within Nessus, many users disapproved, since it was not a “known” language such as Perl or Python. Over time, the use of a dedicated language turned out to be a good design decision, since it gives us, as developers, full control of the virtual machine used by the individual plugins. The use of NASL dramatically simplifies the maintenance of the plugins; bug fixes and enhancements can be applied to the NASL interpreter itself, avoiding the need ...
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