Bug#333282: ITP: tcpxtract -- extracts files from network traffic based on file signatures
In other news for Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:00:55AM +0200, Nico Golde has been seen typing:
> Owner: Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de>
> * Package name : tcpxtract
> Version : 1.0
> Upstream Author : Nicholas Harbour <nickharbour@gmail.com>
> * URL : http://tcpxtract.sourceforge.net/
> * License : GPL
> Description : extracts files from network traffic based on file signatures
> Tcpxtract can caputer files from tcp based network streams.
"capture"
> It can be greatly combined with network sniffers like tcpdump.
"greatly" sounds rather forced. How about "easily" ? Or better yet,
something along the lines of "It can easily be made to work with network
sniffers like tcpdump" ?
> The features are:
The following part sounds like you copied it verbatim from an
advertisement page. You might want to tone down the singing-of-praises
just a bit, although that might be just me...
> o Supports 25 popular file formats out-of-the-box. New formats can be added by
> simply editing its config file.
> o With a quick conversion, you can use your old Foremost config file with tcpxtract.
> o Custom written search algorithm is lightning fast and very scalable.
> o Search algorithm searches across packet boundries for total coverage and
> forensic quality.
> o Uses libpcap, a popular, portable and stable library for network data capture.
> o Can be used against a live network or a tcpdump formatted capture file.
Isn't this last one implicit already in the earlier line about "greatly
combined with network sniffers" ?
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