Renaissance
Renaissance is Web2.0 client-side API which was designed to easy the development of surface agents (ajax bots). The library was intended to be used for cutting-edge Web2.0 security research, although later it was found that it may serve other purposes as well. The project is still at development stage. We recommend you to have a look at the For my next trick… hacking Web2.0
purple paper for some insights how to use the project.
Currently, the API supports the following service bindings:
- Dodgit
- Hostip
- Yahoo Web Search
- Yahoo Site Explorer PageData
- Yahoo ContextSearch
- Yahoo Pipes
- SEO Text Browser
- Browseip
- Dapper
- Mailbucket
- Zoho Creator
- Ponyfish
- Google Groups
- Google Mashups
- Google Web Search
- Mailinator
The Renaissance bindings are like programmable interfaces with Object Oriented capabilities (i.e in simple words they are classes) which are designed around the has-a rather then is-a principles. Here it follows Renaissance’s source code. As you can see, it is very basic but extremely powerful when you want to script a cross-domain AJAX agents (this includes AJAX worms as well):
http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/renaissance/Renaissance-standalone.js
comments
pdp which software do you prefer for programing? i hope you’ll write notepad :P
vindic, why? does it really matter? as long as you know how to program, any text editor should serve the purpose :). however, I prefer VI, mainly because it is super fast and has nice some tricks and shortcuts that save you loads of time and effort.
re “reneaissance”
if you want to be called a citizen, why are you publishing new tools to destroy websites instead of methods to improve security and keep “id”iots who develop new attack methods at bay? - refer to Dostoyevsky, Jung and Freud fo the meaning of ID(iot)
because we are think tank and we do public research. moreover, there is nothing malicious about the Renaissance project. This library can be used for completely legitimate purposes, but it shows that AJAX software is more advanced then some people think or would like to admit.
Did you ever provide an example ? I wanna start to playing with, but my javascript knowlegde lack too much for starting reading your libs :)
nope, no example yet. soon I will get the inline documentation done. cheers.
hi Petko,
nobody’s mentioned about this, so I must be doing smt. wrong. :(
http://code.google.com/p/gc-re.....etail?id=1
not to mention, great work!
follow up on the project page!
I also tried to compile a piece of the Renaissance code w/ Rhino shell, no success.
http://code.google.com/p/gc-re.....il?id=1#c2