greenbone/openvas-scanner
Oct 2024 – Oct 2025
13 Months active
Languages Used
NASLRustTOMLCC++JavaScriptPythonDockerfile
Technical Skills
Code OrganizationDependency ManagementDocumentationError HandlingNASLNetwork Programming
Toni Peter
PROFILE
Toni Peter
Toni Peter developed and maintained core components of the greenbone/openvas-scanner project, focusing on interpreter reliability, parser modernization, and robust CI workflows. Over 13 months, Toni delivered features such as a modular NASL interpreter, snapshot-based testing, and automated service discovery, while refactoring APIs and error models for maintainability. Using Rust and Bash, Toni improved code organization, enhanced error diagnostics, and streamlined build and deployment pipelines with Docker and GitHub Actions. The work addressed technical debt, strengthened security, and enabled faster onboarding, demonstrating depth in systems programming, language tooling, and backend development while consistently reducing maintenance overhead and improving runtime stability.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
73%Features
Repository Contributions
376Total
Bugs
45
Commits
376
Features
121
Lines of code
99,953
Activity Months13
Work History
October 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 highlights for greenbone/openvas-scanner: delivered concrete improvements to the test environment and runtime reliability, documented NASLv2 variable semantics for future changes, and fixed a stack overflow in the NASL parser with guardrails and tests. These workstreams underpin faster CI feedback, more stable test runs, and clearer developer expectations, while demonstrating Docker/CI, documentation, and parser hardening skills.
3 Commits • 2 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 highlights for greenbone/openvas-scanner: delivered concrete improvements to the test environment and runtime reliability, documented NASLv2 variable semantics for future changes, and fixed a stack overflow in the NASL parser with guardrails and tests. These workstreams underpin faster CI feedback, more stable test runs, and clearer developer expectations, while demonstrating Docker/CI, documentation, and parser hardening skills.
October 2025
September 2025
21 Commits • 11 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 delivered a focused set of code maintenance, feature enhancements, and reliability improvements for greenbone/openvas-scanner, driving readability, security, and operational efficiency while enabling easier testing and NASL/versioning support. Key business value: - Reduced maintenance burden through consistent naming and API consolidation, enabling faster onboarding and fewer regressions. - Improved security and reliability with TLS key/cert handling fixes and default crypto provider initialization. - Enhanced observability and debugging through explicit request handling logs. - Strengthened testing and deployment workflows via Dockerfile for openvas/ospd-openvas testing and container image scanning examples. - Broadened runtime configurability and usability with OpenVASd scanner construction and fork kinds support, plus NASL versioning for asset/version control. Top 5 achievements: 1) Code Refactoring and Naming Cleanup across API, macros/variables/methods, and path qualification to improve readability and consistency (representative commits: 3b157a2c7f54acc1f13dd2595ce06cd154340b4a, e16072ab048ace3a23b4ec5b14026a079a5807ba, a20e59f2aea8157566347ddc7af80a215c3c3e74). 2) NASL Version Support added to enable NASL versioning in related functionality (commit: 562f4b265f0b235359e4155b78cdfcb1b12018b1). 3) Dockerfile for openvas/ospd-openvas testing added to facilitate reproducible testing environments (commit: cfd150589cba79e1c8c908b15a5bf31a8a9d129e). 4) OpenVASd Scanner Construction enabled for improved usability and configuration (commit: 896846d797cb71abcde66c0c3f3f155cb3057cbe). 5) Major TLS and ID handling fixes to reduce runtime errors and misconfigurations: Fix key/cert swap during TLS setup and Fix ID parsing disregarding prefix (commits: 2b1a97ec67441168be82daaae3d281cbad8add85, b4f961b3f692005b1eb484a7edf19dc0393a557f). Major bugs fixed: - Fix unused endpoint: ensured endpoints are reachable and correctly wired (commit: 149782575cd83cb5f3596746ad34a35533b47dd8). - Fix key/cert swap and related TLS misconfigurations to ensure proper authentication. - Fix ID parsing when a prefix is present to avoid incorrect IDs (commit: b4f961b3f692005b1eb484a7edf19dc0393a557f). Overall impact: - Delivered clearer, maintainable code with reduced risk of regressions. - Strengthened security posture and reliability in TLS handling and crypto initialization. - Enhanced observability and testability, enabling faster issue diagnosis and improved deployment confidence. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Code refactoring, naming conventions, and API normalization across a large C/C++-style codebase. - NASL versioning and containerized testing with Docker integration. - TLS/cryptography initialization and secure defaults. - OpenVASd scanner configuration and fork-kind runtime behavior. - Improved logging for request handling and system observability.
September 2025
21 Commits • 11 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 delivered a focused set of code maintenance, feature enhancements, and reliability improvements for greenbone/openvas-scanner, driving readability, security, and operational efficiency while enabling easier testing and NASL/versioning support. Key business value: - Reduced maintenance burden through consistent naming and API consolidation, enabling faster onboarding and fewer regressions. - Improved security and reliability with TLS key/cert handling fixes and default crypto provider initialization. - Enhanced observability and debugging through explicit request handling logs. - Strengthened testing and deployment workflows via Dockerfile for openvas/ospd-openvas testing and container image scanning examples. - Broadened runtime configurability and usability with OpenVASd scanner construction and fork kinds support, plus NASL versioning for asset/version control. Top 5 achievements: 1) Code Refactoring and Naming Cleanup across API, macros/variables/methods, and path qualification to improve readability and consistency (representative commits: 3b157a2c7f54acc1f13dd2595ce06cd154340b4a, e16072ab048ace3a23b4ec5b14026a079a5807ba, a20e59f2aea8157566347ddc7af80a215c3c3e74). 2) NASL Version Support added to enable NASL versioning in related functionality (commit: 562f4b265f0b235359e4155b78cdfcb1b12018b1). 3) Dockerfile for openvas/ospd-openvas testing added to facilitate reproducible testing environments (commit: cfd150589cba79e1c8c908b15a5bf31a8a9d129e). 4) OpenVASd Scanner Construction enabled for improved usability and configuration (commit: 896846d797cb71abcde66c0c3f3f155cb3057cbe). 5) Major TLS and ID handling fixes to reduce runtime errors and misconfigurations: Fix key/cert swap during TLS setup and Fix ID parsing disregarding prefix (commits: 2b1a97ec67441168be82daaae3d281cbad8add85, b4f961b3f692005b1eb484a7edf19dc0393a557f). Major bugs fixed: - Fix unused endpoint: ensured endpoints are reachable and correctly wired (commit: 149782575cd83cb5f3596746ad34a35533b47dd8). - Fix key/cert swap and related TLS misconfigurations to ensure proper authentication. - Fix ID parsing when a prefix is present to avoid incorrect IDs (commit: b4f961b3f692005b1eb484a7edf19dc0393a557f). Overall impact: - Delivered clearer, maintainable code with reduced risk of regressions. - Strengthened security posture and reliability in TLS handling and crypto initialization. - Enhanced observability and testability, enabling faster issue diagnosis and improved deployment confidence. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Code refactoring, naming conventions, and API normalization across a large C/C++-style codebase. - NASL versioning and containerized testing with Docker integration. - TLS/cryptography initialization and secure defaults. - OpenVASd scanner configuration and fork-kind runtime behavior. - Improved logging for request handling and system observability.
August 2025
17 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 monthly summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner: Focused on reducing technical debt, improving maintainability, and stabilizing the CI pipeline, while delivering ongoing feature work. Key changes include substantial core codebase cleanup and internal refactors that simplify the API surface and improve readability, alongside CI/CD modernization to GitHub-hosted runners and updated workspace dependencies to improve build reliability. The work demonstrates strong discipline in code quality, test hygiene, and tooling modernization, contributing to faster, safer releases and easier contributor onboarding.
17 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 monthly summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner: Focused on reducing technical debt, improving maintainability, and stabilizing the CI pipeline, while delivering ongoing feature work. Key changes include substantial core codebase cleanup and internal refactors that simplify the API surface and improve readability, alongside CI/CD modernization to GitHub-hosted runners and updated workspace dependencies to improve build reliability. The work demonstrates strong discipline in code quality, test hygiene, and tooling modernization, contributing to faster, safer releases and easier contributor onboarding.
August 2025
July 2025
27 Commits • 7 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly performance summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner highlighting business value: improved build reliability and cargo resolution; parsing robustness; modular architecture for independent builds; stronger test coverage and code quality.
July 2025
27 Commits • 7 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly performance summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner highlighting business value: improved build reliability and cargo resolution; parsing robustness; modular architecture for independent builds; stronger test coverage and code quality.
June 2025
4 Commits • 2 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner focusing on NASL language, interpreter performance, and codebase maintenance. Delivered targeted documentation and performance optimizations, and simplified the codebase by removing deprecated modules.
4 Commits • 2 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner focusing on NASL language, interpreter performance, and codebase maintenance. Delivered targeted documentation and performance optimizations, and simplified the codebase by removing deprecated modules.
June 2025
May 2025
30 Commits • 10 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner focused on stabilizing the interpreter engine, improving error diagnostics, and strengthening code organization to drive reliability, maintainability, and faster onboarding for contributors. Key initiatives spanned grammar migration, error modeling, code refactoring, and CI/dependency hygiene, delivering measurable business value through more robust parsing, clearer diagnostics, and smoother development workflows. Key features delivered: - Interpreter grammar migration across steps 2–6 (fn calls, blocks, assignments, declarations, increments, return handling) with six targeted commits, enabling more expressive and reliable interpretation paths. - Code organization and encapsulation: moved interpreter code to dedicated modules, relocated naslvalue, split register into its own file, and encapsulated RuntimeValue for cleaner interfaces. - Display and parser polish: improved debug/pretty-printers for arrays and fixed tokenization in recursive parser calls to reduce user-visible errors. Major bugs fixed: - Error handling improvements: enhanced error messages, consistency, and block error handling for a more actionable debugging experience. - Interpreter error model improvements: renamed InterpretError to InterpreterError, added explicit error spans, fixed spans for literals/expressions and binary expressions, and added tests covering all variants. - Parser/tokenization fixes: resolved tokenization errors in recursive calls, reducing false negatives and improving parse stability. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Increased reliability of the interpreter pipeline, reducing runtime surprises and enabling safer future feature work. - Improved developer productivity through clearer error diagnostics and modular code organization, accelerating onboarding and reducing maintenance costs. - Strengthened release discipline and CI hygiene, setting the stage for smoother releases and faster response to security/dependabot alerts. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Rust module systems and encapsulation, refactoring for maintainability and testability. - Robust error handling design, explicit spans, and comprehensive variant testing. - Parser/tokenizer stability improvements and improved debug tooling (display/pretty-printers). - CI workflow management, dependency updates (Tokio bump), and build configuration enhancements (release-LTO profile).
May 2025
30 Commits • 10 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner focused on stabilizing the interpreter engine, improving error diagnostics, and strengthening code organization to drive reliability, maintainability, and faster onboarding for contributors. Key initiatives spanned grammar migration, error modeling, code refactoring, and CI/dependency hygiene, delivering measurable business value through more robust parsing, clearer diagnostics, and smoother development workflows. Key features delivered: - Interpreter grammar migration across steps 2–6 (fn calls, blocks, assignments, declarations, increments, return handling) with six targeted commits, enabling more expressive and reliable interpretation paths. - Code organization and encapsulation: moved interpreter code to dedicated modules, relocated naslvalue, split register into its own file, and encapsulated RuntimeValue for cleaner interfaces. - Display and parser polish: improved debug/pretty-printers for arrays and fixed tokenization in recursive parser calls to reduce user-visible errors. Major bugs fixed: - Error handling improvements: enhanced error messages, consistency, and block error handling for a more actionable debugging experience. - Interpreter error model improvements: renamed InterpretError to InterpreterError, added explicit error spans, fixed spans for literals/expressions and binary expressions, and added tests covering all variants. - Parser/tokenization fixes: resolved tokenization errors in recursive calls, reducing false negatives and improving parse stability. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Increased reliability of the interpreter pipeline, reducing runtime surprises and enabling safer future feature work. - Improved developer productivity through clearer error diagnostics and modular code organization, accelerating onboarding and reducing maintenance costs. - Strengthened release discipline and CI hygiene, setting the stage for smoother releases and faster response to security/dependabot alerts. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Rust module systems and encapsulation, refactoring for maintainability and testability. - Robust error handling design, explicit spans, and comprehensive variant testing. - Parser/tokenizer stability improvements and improved debug tooling (display/pretty-printers). - CI workflow management, dependency updates (Tokio bump), and build configuration enhancements (release-LTO profile).
April 2025
38 Commits • 10 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner: API modernization, reliability, and quality improvements across the Context/Target layer, Target usage in builtins, scanner representation, and parser, plus docs and CI hygiene. This work reduces maintenance burden and enables faster feature delivery while boosting runtime reliability and test coverage.
38 Commits • 10 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner: API modernization, reliability, and quality improvements across the Context/Target layer, Target usage in builtins, scanner representation, and parser, plus docs and CI hygiene. This work reduces maintenance burden and enables faster feature delivery while boosting runtime reliability and test coverage.
April 2025
March 2025
114 Commits • 37 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 performance summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner. Delivered a major modernization of the scanner’s core parsing/tokenization stack, hardened error handling, and snapshot-based testing. Completed Rust 2024 migration across the workspace, applied code quality improvements, and enhanced NASL socket reliability. These changes improve reliability, maintainability, and velocity for feature delivery and future scalability of parsing, rules, and scanning workflows.
March 2025
114 Commits • 37 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 performance summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner. Delivered a major modernization of the scanner’s core parsing/tokenization stack, hardened error handling, and snapshot-based testing. Completed Rust 2024 migration across the workspace, applied code quality improvements, and enhanced NASL socket reliability. These changes improve reliability, maintainability, and velocity for feature delivery and future scalability of parsing, rules, and scanning workflows.
February 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 monthly summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner focused on automation, security hardening, and code quality improvements. Key deliverables include the Scan Configuration Generator from Feed Filter, which creates a runnable-script-based scan configuration with optional output paths for the configuration JSON and handles dependency resolution to produce a scan config containing OIDs of all runnable scripts. Security hardening involved upgrading OpenSSL and openssl-sys to address cargo audit vulnerabilities, updating related version numbers and checksums in Cargo.toml and Cargo.lock. The work also included clippy lint fixes to improve maintainability and CI hygiene.
3 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 monthly summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner focused on automation, security hardening, and code quality improvements. Key deliverables include the Scan Configuration Generator from Feed Filter, which creates a runnable-script-based scan configuration with optional output paths for the configuration JSON and handles dependency resolution to produce a scan config containing OIDs of all runnable scripts. Security hardening involved upgrading OpenSSL and openssl-sys to address cargo audit vulnerabilities, updating related version numbers and checksums in Cargo.toml and Cargo.lock. The work also included clippy lint fixes to improve maintainability and CI hygiene.
February 2025
January 2025
28 Commits • 12 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 monthly summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner. Delivered multiple high-value features and targeted fixes with strong focus on maintainability, performance visibility, and code quality. The month showcased solid collaboration between development and CI workflows, reinforcing technical excellence and business value.
January 2025
28 Commits • 12 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 monthly summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner. Delivered multiple high-value features and targeted fixes with strong focus on maintainability, performance visibility, and code quality. The month showcased solid collaboration between development and CI workflows, reinforcing technical excellence and business value.
December 2024
18 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner. Delivered automated service discovery via Run Find Service, significant hardening of network/socket error handling, NASL context/KB enhancements, and improved user-facing error messaging for signature/config loading. These changes reduce debugging time, stabilize builds, and improve scan reliability, contributing to faster time-to-value for users and a more maintainable codebase.
18 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for greenbone/openvas-scanner. Delivered automated service discovery via Run Find Service, significant hardening of network/socket error handling, NASL context/KB enhancements, and improved user-facing error messaging for signature/config loading. These changes reduce debugging time, stabilize builds, and improve scan reliability, contributing to faster time-to-value for users and a more maintainable codebase.
December 2024
November 2024
63 Commits • 23 Features
Nov 1, 2024OpenVAS Scanner — Monthly summary for 2024-11 Overview: In 2024-11, the team delivered a substantial upgrade to the error handling architecture, expanded capabilities, and improved reliability, while stabilizing the test and automation surface. These changes reduce debugging time, improve incident response, and enable faster onboarding for new error types and features. Key features delivered: - Error system modernization and ergonomics across NaslError, FnError, and ArgumentError, including new variants and refactoring of error categories; removal of legacy variants; improved error propagation and logging. - Pread API and related data utilities: Implemented pread, including the cd argument, expanding file/data access patterns; introduced core file I/O and path utilities (fread, fwrite, file_stat, find_in_path, get_tmp_dir, unlink). - SSH integration enhancements: Added stderr support for russh request_exec and clarified libssh connect usage to reduce remote operation failures. - Reliability and test stability: Stabilized the test suite with deadlock fixes, require verify_async on TestBuilder, and added basic retry logic tests for Fn errors. - API cleanup and safety improvements: Removed StorageError/IOError from InterpreterError, simplified AttachErrorInfo location, removed diagnostic variant, and eliminated PartialEq on Error to reduce trait conflicts; moved error framing to reusable utils. Major bugs fixed: - Positionals parsing bug: ensured positional arguments start at the correct position. - Deadlock-related test flakes: addressed to ensure reliable parallel test execution. - Public key authentication removal for security hardening, reducing attack surface. - Clippy warnings and minor lint fixes to improve build stability and developer experience. - Diagnostic variant removal to streamline error handling. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved developer velocity and incident response through clearer error diagnoses, unified error surface, and more reliable test execution. - Enhanced automation and remote operation capabilities via pread, SSH enhancements, and file utilities. - Strengthened security posture and maintainability, paving the way for faster feature delivery and fewer regressions. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Rust error handling architecture (NaslError, FnError, ArgumentError), macro-driven refactors, and error ergonomics. - Async test strategies and TestBuilder verification patterns. - SSH integration with libssh and russh, and robust file I/O programming. - Code quality, linting (clippy), documentation improvements, and modularization of utilities.
November 2024
63 Commits • 23 Features
Nov 1, 2024OpenVAS Scanner — Monthly summary for 2024-11 Overview: In 2024-11, the team delivered a substantial upgrade to the error handling architecture, expanded capabilities, and improved reliability, while stabilizing the test and automation surface. These changes reduce debugging time, improve incident response, and enable faster onboarding for new error types and features. Key features delivered: - Error system modernization and ergonomics across NaslError, FnError, and ArgumentError, including new variants and refactoring of error categories; removal of legacy variants; improved error propagation and logging. - Pread API and related data utilities: Implemented pread, including the cd argument, expanding file/data access patterns; introduced core file I/O and path utilities (fread, fwrite, file_stat, find_in_path, get_tmp_dir, unlink). - SSH integration enhancements: Added stderr support for russh request_exec and clarified libssh connect usage to reduce remote operation failures. - Reliability and test stability: Stabilized the test suite with deadlock fixes, require verify_async on TestBuilder, and added basic retry logic tests for Fn errors. - API cleanup and safety improvements: Removed StorageError/IOError from InterpreterError, simplified AttachErrorInfo location, removed diagnostic variant, and eliminated PartialEq on Error to reduce trait conflicts; moved error framing to reusable utils. Major bugs fixed: - Positionals parsing bug: ensured positional arguments start at the correct position. - Deadlock-related test flakes: addressed to ensure reliable parallel test execution. - Public key authentication removal for security hardening, reducing attack surface. - Clippy warnings and minor lint fixes to improve build stability and developer experience. - Diagnostic variant removal to streamline error handling. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved developer velocity and incident response through clearer error diagnoses, unified error surface, and more reliable test execution. - Enhanced automation and remote operation capabilities via pread, SSH enhancements, and file utilities. - Strengthened security posture and maintainability, paving the way for faster feature delivery and fewer regressions. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Rust error handling architecture (NaslError, FnError, ArgumentError), macro-driven refactors, and error ergonomics. - Async test strategies and TestBuilder verification patterns. - SSH integration with libssh and russh, and robust file I/O programming. - Code quality, linting (clippy), documentation improvements, and modularization of utilities.
October 2024
10 Commits • 3 Features
Oct 1, 2024In October 2024, the team delivered a series of stable foundational changes to openvas-scanner by unifying SSH session management, strengthening NASL parsing, and pruning the development surface, resulting in reduced risk and faster iteration in CI and production deployments.
10 Commits • 3 Features
Oct 1, 2024In October 2024, the team delivered a series of stable foundational changes to openvas-scanner by unifying SSH session management, strengthening NASL parsing, and pruning the development surface, resulting in reduced risk and faster iteration in CI and production deployments.
October 2024
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Quality Metrics
Correctness91.8%
Maintainability92.0%
Architecture88.8%
Performance83.6%
AI Usage21.0%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
BashCC++DockerfileJSONJavaScriptMakeMakefileMarkdownNASL
Technical Skills
API DesignAPI DevelopmentAPI InteractionAST ManipulationAST ParsingAST TraversalAbstract Data TypesAbstract Syntax Tree (AST)Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) ManipulationAbstract Syntax TreesAbstract Syntax Trees (AST)Argument ParsingAsync ProgrammingAsynchronous ProgrammingBackend Development
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