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Selling Smoke: RUSTSCAN vs NMAP

Critical analysis of RustScan, the tool that promised to scan ports much faster than Nmap. Is it truly revolutionary or just an aggressive wrapper? Real comparison with advanced Nmap configurations that achieve more accurate and faster results.

· Manuel López Pérez · news

Critical analysis of RustScan, the tool that promised to scan ports much faster than Nmap. Is it truly revolutionary or just an aggressive wrapper? Real comparison with advanced Nmap configurations that achieve more accurate and faster results.

RUSTSCAN vs NMAPIn this post we will analyze the new fashion of publishing codes of dubious quality to win a few interactions. Because of this fashion we find publications on Twitter, Linkedin (or even Twitch) that, to people without much technical level, can be confusing.

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