NAME¶
cryptcat - twofish encryption enabled version of
nc(1)
SYNOPSIS¶
cryptcat -k
secret [-options] hostname port[s] [ports]
cryptcat -k
secret -l -p port [-options] [hostname] [port]
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the
cryptcat command. This manual page
was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program
does not have a manual page. It only documents the features specific to
cryptcat and not the features that are described at length in the
manpage for
nc(1).
If you do not know
nc then the chances are you won't have much use for
this manpage.
cryptcat can act as a
tcp or
udp client or server -
connecting to or listening on a socket, while otherwise working as the
standard Unix command
cat(1).
cryptcat takes a password as a salt to encrypt the data being sent over
the connection. Without a specified password
cryptcat will default to
the hardcoded password ``
metallica''. Needless to say, failure to
specify a different password makes the connection as good as unencrypted.
OPTIONS¶
This programs
does not follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with
long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of the options specific
to cryptcat is included below.
- -h
-
Show summary of options.
- -k secret password
-
Change the shared secret password to be used to establish a connection.
BUGS¶
This version of
cryptcat does not support the
-e command
command line option available in some versions of
nc.
SEE ALSO¶
nc(1), cat(1).
/usr/share/doc/cryptcat/README.gz
/usr/share/doc/cryptcat/README.cryptcat
/usr/share/doc/cryptcat/README.Debian
AUTHOR¶
The original
netcat was written by
hobbit@avian.org.
cryptcat is the work of
farm9 <info@farm9.org> with the help
of Dan F, Jeff Nathan, Matt W, Frank Knobbe, Dragos, Bill Weiss, Jimmy.
This manual page was written by Lars Bahner <bahner@debian.org> for
Debian.