MPF - The previous iteration

Before there was MRPF, there was MPF. The original idea was the same, build my own tooling around bug bounty hunting.

It was built in Python and I've learned a lot from building it. I wanted to investigate if I could build a custom network stack and have more control over HTTP traffic, but Python was a bit more limited here. For instance, a lot of the HTTP client libraries don't allow for a lot of customization around TLS. The libraries often build abstractions around the networking layers, making it difficult to customize things like TLS SNI or ALPN. Also, concepts like domain names, host names and ip addresses are all mixed together. This is nice fro a user perspective, but I want very specific control over all these factors to find misconfigurations.

Initially I started to build a custom network stack in C using libuv. Unfortunately my laptop crashed and I was stupid enough not to commit all that code into a repo. Also, I was very much struggling with writing save concurrent C code.

After a while I decided to try and rebuild the network stack and looked into Rust. By this time ChatGPT was really getting good and it really helped me quickly get up to speed with a new language. I learned a LOT and started to love some of the rust concepts like ownership, fearless concurrency and the way it makes refactoring code bases a lot easier.

This now has let me to try and re-build MPF completely in rust, Hence the M(y) (Rusty) P (Pension) F (Fund) project.