Projects tagged ‘networking’ and ‘security’

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. It also includes versions of sftp and scp.

OpenSSH is a free SSH/SecSH protocol suite providing encryption for network services like remote login or remote file transfer. The following is a list of OpenSSH features: * Open Source ... [More] Project * Free Licensing * Strong Encryption (3DES, Blowfish, AES, Arcfour) * X11 Forwarding (encrypt X Window System traffic) * Port Forwarding (encrypted channels for legacy protocols) * Strong Authentication (Public Key, One-Time Password and Kerberos Authentication) * Agent Forwarding (Single-Sign-On) * Interoperability (Compliance with SSH 1.3, 1.5, and 2.0 protocol Standards) * SFTP client and server support in both SSH1 and SSH2 protocols. * Kerberos and AFS Ticket Passing * Data Compression [Less]

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. (Wireshark was known as Ethereal until June 09, 2006)

WinSCP is a SFTP and SCP client for Windows using SSH. Its main function is secure copying of files between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this basic function, WinSCP manages some other actions ... [More] with files. Plugin to FAR manager is available too. [Less]

OpenVPN is a robust and highly configurable VPN (Virtual Private Network) daemon which can be used to securely link two or more private networks using an encrypted tunnel over the Internet. OpenVPN's ... [More] principal strengths include wide cross-platform portability, excellent stability, support for dynamic IP addresses and NAT, adaptive link compression, single TCP/UDP port usage, a modular design that offloads most crypto tasks to the OpenSSL library, and relatively easy installation that in most cases doesn't require a special kernel module. [Less]

Nagios (formerly Netsaint) is a daemon written in C that is designed to monitor networked hosts and services. It has the ability to notify contacts (via email, pager or other methods) when problems ... [More] arise and are resolved. Host and service checks are performed by external "plugins", making it easy to write custom checks in your language of choice. Several CGIs are included in order to allow you to view the current and historical status via a Web browser, and a WAP interface is also provided to allow you to acknowledge problems and disable notifications from an internet-ready cellphone. [Less]

iptables is the userspace command line program used to configure the Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x IPv4 packet filtering ruleset. It is targeted towards system administrators.

Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant ... [More] messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol. Tor also provides a platform on which software developers can build new applications with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features. Tor aims to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers called onion routers, protecting you from websites that build profiles of your interests, local eavesdroppers that read your data [Less]

PF (Packet Filter) is OpenBSD's system for filtering TCP/IP traffic, doing Network Address Translation, normalizing and conditioning TCP/IP traffic and providing bandwidth control and packet ... [More] prioritization. PF has also been ported to FreeBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD, and is an integral part of MirBSD. [Less]

Snort® is an open source network intrusion prevention and detection system using a flexible rule-driven language, which combines the benefits of signature, protocol and anomaly based inspection ... [More] methods. With millions of downloads to date, Snort is the most widely deployed intrusion detection and prevention technology worldwide and has become the de facto standard for the industry. [Less]