socat alternatives
Looking for an alternative tool to replace socat? During the review of socat we looked at other open source tools. Based on their category, tags, and text, these are the ones that have the best match.
Top 3
- Cryptomator (client-side encryption for cloud services)
- OpenSSL (TLS and SSL toolkit)
- git-crypt (encrypt sensitive data in Git repositories)
These tools are ranked as the best alternatives to socat.
Alternatives (by score)
Cryptomator
Introduction
Cryptomator is a multi-platform tool for transparent client-side encryption of your files. It is used together with cloud services to ensure you are the only one who can access the data.Project details
Cryptomator is written in Java.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + More than 10 contributors
- + More than 2000 GitHub stars
- + Many releases available
Typical usage
- Data encryption
OpenSSL
Introduction
This popular toolkit is used by many systems. It provides options like encryption and hashing of data, integrity testing, and digital certificates and signatures. Many software applications use the toolkit to provide support for these functions. OpenSSL also has a client utility that can be used on the command line to test, decrypt and encrypt data, and create certificates.
Project details
OpenSSL is written in C.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + The source code of this software is available
- + Well-known library
- - Major vulnerabilities in the past
Typical usage
- Certificate management
- Data encryption
git-crypt
Introduction
This tools allows you to store your secrets (such as keys or passwords) in the same repository as your code.
Project details
git-crypt is written in C++.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + More than 10 contributors
- + More than 3000 GitHub stars
- + The source code of this software is available
Typical usage
- Data encryption
jak
Introduction
Typically developers may want to store some secrets, like authentication details, in in their repository. With jak this can happen in a slightly more secure way, by encrypting the data.
Project details
jak is written in Python.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + The source code of this software is available
Typical usage
- Data encryption
CIRCLean
Introduction
Malware regularly uses USB sticks to infect victims. This solution can convert documents with potentially harmful code into disarmed data formats. This converted data is then stored on a trusted device.
Project details
CIRCLean is written in shell script.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + The source code of this software is available
Typical usage
- Data sanitizing
- Data transfers
Bleach
Introduction
Bleach is a library for Django that can sanitize HTML by escaping and stripping harmful content. It provides a filter for untrusted content and disarms potential unwanted scripts from the input. This may be useful to apply to data that is transmitted via HTML forms or otherwise.
Project details
Bleach is written in Python.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + More than 25 contributors
- + More than 1000 GitHub stars
- + The source code of this software is available
Typical usage
- Data sanitizing
CHIRON ELK
Introduction
CHIRON is a tool to provide network analytics based on the ELK stack. It is combined with Machine Learning threat detection using the Aktaion framework. Typical usage of the tool is home use and get the visibility of home internet devices. By leveraging the Aktaion framework, it helps with detection threats like ransomware, phishing, or other malicious traffic.
Project details
CHIRON ELK is written in Python.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + The source code of this software is available
- - No releases on GitHub available
Typical usage
- Network analysis
- Network security monitoring
- Network traffic analysis
- Threat discovery
Trawler
Introduction
Trawler can simplify the work that is related to collecting phishing information like reports. It can process the information and use the information for follow-up steps.
Project details
Trawler is written in Python.
Strengths and weaknesses
- + The source code of this software is available
- - No releases on GitHub available
Typical usage
- Data collection
- Phishing attacks
Xplico
Introduction
With Xplico analysis can be performed on captured internet traffic. The data stored in a pcap file can then be displayed and the related protocol data can be extracted from the capture file. This may include emails, HTTP sessions, VoIP calls, or anything that can be recognized and stored.
Project details
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