ipsectrace is a software tool designed by Wayne Schroeder to help profile IPsec connections in a

packet capture A packet analyzer (also packet sniffer or network analyzer) is a computer program or computer hardware such as a packet capture appliance that can analyze and log traffic that passes over a computer network or part of a network. Packet capt ...

(PCP) file. The program uses a command line interface to point at a PCP capture and informs the user about what is going on. It is somewhat inspired by

tcptrace tcptrace is a free and open-source tool for analyzing TCP dump files. It accepts as input files produced by packet-capture programs, including tcpdump, Wireshark, and snoop. tcptrace can produce several different types of output containing in ...

, which uses the same input of PCP files. Ipsectrace is only available for the

Linux Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...

operating system An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...

. It is coded in

C++ C++ (, pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP or CXX) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup. First released in 1985 as an extension of the C programmin ...

and is licensed under the

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, effectively allowing anyone to modify and redistribute it. Although its main purpose is to monitor IPsec traffic, ipsectrace can be used to crack extra layers of security brought about by

VPN Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet) across one or multiple other networks which are either untrusted (as they are not c ...

implementations of security such as IPsec and

SSH The Secure Shell Protocol (SSH Protocol) is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network. Its most notable applications are remote login and command-line execution. SSH was designed for Un ...

, whereas programs such as Anger, Deceit, and Ettercap can be used to infiltrate

PPTP The Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) is an obsolete method for implementing virtual private networks. PPTP has many well known security issues. PPTP uses a TCP control channel and a Generic Routing Encapsulation tunnel to encapsulate P ...

security.

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