Python 3.7 asyncio For Hackers

0xSha
0xSha
Nov 4 · 1 min read

Hello Luvs,

I used Python so for many years, and I feel very comfortable using it, but the issue with the Python from the beginning remains. Speed! Python isn’t the most performant language in the world (it’s not designed to be !), so I ended-up to switching to Go to scan my engine. Because last time (a few years ago) I tried Python Asynco, it was a mess. So few days ago I gave it another shot, and to my surprise, it’s relatively matured and is usable. As you may see on my project page, I’ve been working on a project called hunter suite, which tends to automate all the tedious penetration testing and bug bounty hunters.

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Introduction

Concurrency is hard

Sending millions of HTTP requests

Conclusion

Introduction

As a python developer, you are probably writing a lot of custom scripts. Most of the time, you find yourself in a situation you are talking to some API or network protocol for many reasons. In the case of information security research, fuzzing, or delivering an exploit payload. Now think about if your scripts get results like 100x faster. How cool is that?

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