cryptcat(t)                                           cryptcat(t)



NAME
       cryptcat - twofish encryption enabled version of nc(c)

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 dis-
       tribution 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(c).
       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  -  con-
       necting to or listening on a socket, while otherwise work-
       ing as the standard Unix command cat(t).

       cryptcat takes a password as a salt to  encrypt  the  data
       being sent over the connection.  Without a specified pass-
       word cryptcat  will  default  to  the  hardcoded  password
       ``metallica''.  Needless to say, failure to specify a dif-
       ferent password makes the  connection  as  good  as  unen-
       crypted.


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(c), cat(t).
       /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.com>  with  the
       help  of Dan F, Jeff Nathan, Matt W, Frank Knobbe, Dragos,
       Bill Weiss, Jimmy.

       This manual page was written  by  Lars  Bahner  <lars@bah-
       ner.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used
       by others).