Sussen 0.4 released

A new release of Sussen, version 0.4,  is now available.  Sussen is 
a client for the Nessus Security Scanner.  Sussen is incredibly
easy to use, you can perform a vulnerability assessment with just a few
mouse clicks.

More information, updated screenshots and source code are available
from http://sussen.sourceforge.net/

It's been just over a month now since we launched this project.  
Looking back, we have made a lot of progress.  We started with a
copy of nessus v2.0.5:

- roughly 30,000 lines of code
- mix of command line / GTK+ 1.x / Win32 
- GUI hard coded as GTK+ calls
- uses flat text file for backend
- generates a single report
- 83 calls to goto (grr!)

By the end of the month, we had something very different.  Sussen's
features now include:

* Embedded MySQL Server (v4.0) backend
* Support for multiple Nessus servers
* Sussen now can generate multiple reports; you can add/customize your
own
* Based on the GNOME/Gtk+ 2.2 APIs
* Druids for common tasks
* Integrated online help manual
* Policy manager for managing plugins and port scanners
* Supports for internationalization and localization
* XML based configuration 

We also brought the code size down to ~9,000 lines of code.

We at Star Chamber would like to thank all the early
Sussen users for letting us know about bugs, sending us patches, 
and ideas for the future.   The response from the open source
community has been great.

We would also like to thank those people who helped us get the 
word out about sussen in the first place.    

There are still bugs and we have a lot more work to be done
before we get to v1, but we're very happy with the progress 
we've made thus far.  

Changes since 0.3:

	* Embedded MySQL Server (v4.0) backend
	* Added interface to query/dump backend database
	* Sussen now can generate multiple reports
	* Reports are customizable and you can define your own
	* Updated online help manual
	* Removed and/or reworked a fair bit of Nessus code
	* Various bug fixes.

-- 
Loren Bandiera, CISSP <lorenb@starchamber.ca>
Star Chamber Inc.