cryptcat - twofish encryption enabled version of nc(1)
Contents
Bugs
This version of cryptcat does not support the -ecommand command line option available in some versions
of nc.
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.
Name
cryptcat - twofish encryption enabled version of nc(1)Options
This programs doesnot 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.
-ksecretpassword
Change the shared secret password to be used to establish a connection.
See Also
nc(1),cat(1). /usr/share/doc/cryptcat/README.gz /usr/share/doc/cryptcat/README.cryptcat /usr/share/doc/cryptcat/README.Debian
Synopsis
cryptcat -k secret [-options] hostname port[s] [ports]
cryptcat -k secret -l -p port [-options] [hostname] [port]
