4 articles tagged "network protocols"

scapy - Interactive Packet Manipulation / Generation Tool for Linux / UNIX
Recently I started to play with scapy - a powerful interactive packet manipulation and custom packet generation program written using Python. Please note that this tool is not for a new Linux / UNIX users. This tool requires extensive knowledge of network protocols, packets, layers and other hardcore networking concepts. This tool is extermly [...]
Linux Postfix mail server SSL certificate installations and configuration
One of our regular reader asks :
How do I generate a CSR certificate for CA, to use with my postfix mail server? How do I install and configure postfix mail server SSL certificate under Redhat enterprise Linux 5 or CentOS 5 server?

Procedure for creating a CSR on postfix MTA is just like web server. [...]
Linux or UNIX password protect files
From my mailbag:
Q. How do I password protect files?
Linux and other Unixish oses offers strong file permissions and ACL (access control list) concept in Linux/UNIX computer security used to enforce privilege separation.
However, none of them offers a password to protect files. You can use GNU gpg (GNU Privacy Guard) encryption and signing [...]
Penetration testing - security password auditing for UNIX / Linux systems
If you just want to see how secure your network is or you would like to audit your own network, and to determine the insecurity of cleartext network protocols then you need to use sniffer programs. There are tons of Network protocol analyzer for Unix and Linux exist that allows examination of data from a [...]