Re:Black Hat Go – Go Programming for Hackers and Pentesters
by tptacek on Friday June 23, 2017 @09:55AM
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For penetration testing, Python's standard library is much more useful than Go's, and there are way more third party libraries.
Re:Black Hat Go – Go Programming for Hackers and Pentesters
by ejcx on Friday June 23, 2017 @10:35AM
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Yeah scapy is nice and there's a lot of nice libs, but security engineering and building of tools Go wins every time. Especially when it's something brand new.
Re:Black Hat Go – Go Programming for Hackers and Pentesters
by tptacek on Friday June 23, 2017 @02:27PM
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I like Golang a lot and have built a bunch of things in it, but I do not think that for the stuff "Black Hat Go" is talking about that Go is more effective than Python. Python is one of my least favorite language, and it is practically the lingua franca of offensive security (followed by Ruby).
Re:Black Hat Go – Go Programming for Hackers and Pentesters
by johnpython on Friday June 23, 2017 @11:25AM
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Wouldn't the capability to compile a completely self-contained binary for any platform that can avoid AV be really appealing to pentesters?
I work in security and have noticed most security people are not software engineers and mostly know how to cobble together python scripts.
Go is much better for this with the extremely strong stdlib, types, simplicity, etc. I've been pushing my security friends to adopt go for a while and I'm glad there's a book to point them to.