Knock
Tool and Usage
Project details
- Programming language
- C
- Author
- Judd Vinet
- Latest release
- 0.8
- Latest release date
Project health
63
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Introduction
Knock implements the principle of port knocking. It does so by using libpcap to sniff network traffic on interfaces and then use that to see if it matches a predefined sequence of steps.
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + Project is mature (10+ years)
Weaknesses
- - No updates for a while
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360-FAAR
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a port knocking tool.