Knock

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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

Author and Maintainers

Knock is under development by Judd Vinet.

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Categories

This tool is categorized as a port knocking tool.

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