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Re: Your favorite Ncat/nc/Netcat trick?
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:40:48 -0700
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:09:53AM +0000, Brandon Enright wrote:
What's your favorite Ncat trick? Did it (or nc, etc.) ever get you out of a jam? Do you have any experiences that would make good examples for the users' guide?I often use socat+netcat+perl to unwrap a SSL service and/or modify the traffic. For example, to turn IMAPS into IMAP, save the results, and even mess with what is being sent via a perl script you'd do something like: $ mkfifo backpipe $ while [ 1 == 1 ]; do socat OPENSSL:popmaster.ucsd.edu:993,verify=0 \ STDIO 0<backpipe | nc -l -p 143 | ./filter.pl | tee -a out 1>backpipe; done Now, I suspect ncat could replace socat for this job. It certainly could replace nc. It could also probably replace the while loop.
I put a trick based on this one in the documentation. http://nmap.org/ncat/guide/ncat-tricks.html#ncat-unwrap-ssl David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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- Your favorite Ncat/nc/Netcat trick? David Fifield (Feb 12)
- Re: Your favorite Ncat/nc/Netcat trick? Brandon Enright (Feb 12)
- Re: Your favorite Ncat/nc/Netcat trick? David Fifield (Feb 12)
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- Re: Your favorite Ncat/nc/Netcat trick? Greg Darke (Feb 16)
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