A *long* overdue update.

[paw]

I didn't realized anyone had joined this group...until I got the spam
message. At least the spam got me looking at this site again. I will
make more of an effort to get updates released and solicit feedback
from the group.

Things are still moving (very) slowly along, most of the work lately
has been on architecture. I ran into some scalability issues with
using Python arrays to define security checks. There are also some
issues compiling the code to a standalone .exe on Windows systems due
to nested dependancies.

What I have been looking at lately is to create a XML DTD to specify
the checks to perform, their expected values, a description of the
check and where to get more information. Unfortunately I don't know a
whole lot about creating DTDs.

I will also be changing the language used to Ruby. I had considered
Ruby originally but there was no program to create standalone
executables for the language. There is such a tool now, although I
still need to resolve the nested dependancy problem for some compiled
programs to work.

Using Ruby will also make it easier (for me anyway) to build an
administrative tool since I can use Rails.

I am going to be working on the DTD this weekend, if you have any
suggestions or would like to help let me know,

Wayne