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OpenVAS Transfer Protocol (OTP)
The client and the server module in an OpenVAS installation communicate through
the OpenVAS Transfer Protocol (OTP). Earlier versions of OpenVAS have used the
Nessus Transport Protocol (NTP) inherited from Nessus, but in order to address
shortcomings of NTP and to facilitate further improvements in the OpenVAS
modules it became necessary to make changes to the protocol. Since NTP was
specified by the Nessus project and changes to NTP by the Nessus project are to
be expected, a decision was made to switch to a new protocol to avoid
collisions with future protocol specifications by the Nessus project and to
avoid confusion with other well-established protocols. The initial
specification of OTP is very close to the NTP implementation in the last
versions available under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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