NAME

       cryptcat - twofish encryption enabled version of nc(1)

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 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.

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(1), cat(1).
       /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.org> with the help of Dan F, Jeff Nathan, Matt W, Frank Knobbe,
       Dragos, Bill Weiss, Jimmy.

       This manual page was written by Lars Bahner <bahner@debian.org> for Debian.