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reaver vs socat

A side-by-side look at reaver and socat. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

reaver

reaver

Security & Privacy

Reaver is an open source tool for exploiting weaknesses in Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) registrar PINs in order to recover WPA/WPA2 passphrases. It is designed to brute force the WPS PIN and revert the access point's settings back to factory defaults.

wifiwpsbrute-forcepassword-recovery
socat

socat

Network & Admin

socat is a command line utility that establishes two bidirectional byte streams and transfers data between them. It can be used for various networking and connectivity tasks like creating TCP ports, SOCKS proxies, or UNIX sockets.

networkingconnectivitytcpsocketsproxy

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