iodine VS bettercap

Compare iodine vs bettercap and see what are their differences.

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iodine bettercap
58 28
5,790 15,681
- 1.7%
5.1 1.0
5 months ago 18 days ago
C Go
ISC License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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iodine

Posts with mentions or reviews of iodine. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.
  • Show HN: This Website Is Hosted on DNS
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2024
    Reminds me of using https://code.kryo.se/iodine/ ( DNS tunnel ) and a empty prepaid card...
  • DNS Exfiltration Tool
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2023
    Obligatory dns tunnel software for exfil. It is super noisy if you do dns querylogging, so I'd not use it for anything major, but it is a fun research tool.

    https://github.com/yarrick/iodine

  • Fun with DNS TXT Records
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2023
    It's worth noting that you (re) invented what iodine does: https://code.kryo.se/iodine/
  • WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2023
    (https://github.com/yarrick/iodine)

    It’s slow, but it works and is a handy “last resort” tool.

  • Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2023
    While working in an environment where VPN connections were pretty much all blocked⁰ a friend of mine had success using https://guacamole.apache.org/ to access a remote machine¹. Not quite the same as a direct VPN connection but worth a try if nothing else functions, it looks enough like normal HTTPS traffic that he got away with it.

    To keep your wireguard setup more as-is, you could try https://kirill888.github.io/notes/wireguard-via-websocket/ to tunnel that via a web server. In fact https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel which that uses could be used just as well with any other UDP based VPN.

    I once tinkered with https://github.com/yarrick/iodine and successfully connected to resources over the wireless on a train, bypassing its traffic capture and sign-up requirement, so that might be an option, though I think fully blocking external DNS is more common now so this is less likely to work²³.

    --

    [0] practically only HTTP(S) permitted, not even SSH, DPI in use that detected just using SSH or OpenVPN over port 443

    [1] NOTE: be careful breaching restrictions like this, you are at risk of an insta-sacking if discovered, or worse if operating in some securiry environments!

    [2] and the latency when it does work is significant!

    [3] and that much traffic over port 53 might get noticed by the heuristics of data exfiltration scanner, encouraging sysadmins to notice and implement a way to block it

  • Show HN: File distribution over DNS: (ab)using DNS as a CDN
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jul 2023
    There's also iodine, a C program that tunnels IPv4 packets over DNS. Useful for bypassing captive portals on wifi, since DNS usually isn't restricted.

    https://github.com/yarrick/iodine

    Regarding cloudflare DNS over HTTPS: It could be that it tries to server data encoded as JSON, which is impossible in JSON. Some control characters and bytes 128-255 cannot be represented as JSON strings.

  • Show HN: Use DNS TXT to share information
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jul 2023
    A regular proxy on port 53 might work? Is it necessary to actually use DNS?

    Otherwise there's https://github.com/yarrick/iodine

  • Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough
    4 projects | /r/programming | 4 Jun 2023
  • help with choosing a VPN to host (I'll explain)
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 23 May 2023
    Well, you're really exhausting your options here (and possibly your IT department's patience). Iodine would still be an option, it creates a tunnel through DNS traffic. Nearly impossible to block/filter out but you shouldn't expect a lot of bandwidth. Try it out! Although if you're only going to use low-bandwidth applications through the tunnel anyway you might as well use your own mobile data plan instead of your school's WLAN.
  • DNS blacklisting in enterprise
    1 project | /r/networking | 5 May 2023

bettercap

Posts with mentions or reviews of bettercap. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-03.
  • bettercap VS petep - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 3 Oct 2023
  • Malware installed in this bluetooth remote?
    1 project | /r/hacking | 1 Jun 2023
    you can do this with Bettercap
  • bettercap hell
    1 project | /r/netsec | 25 May 2023
  • quicklisp security (or total lack of it)
    6 projects | /r/lisp | 26 Feb 2023
    I've been learning some common lisp, reading through Practical Common Lisp, and it's really neat. People say the good ideas of lisp got adapted in other languages and sure that's true of garbage collection, lambda's and some others, but I'm seeing plenty incredible stuff I haven't seen elsewhere, the condition system that among other things lets you fix and resume your program on exception, real interactive development, flexible object system, macros way more understandable than in other languages with AST macros as in lisp the AST is simple, an expressive dynamic language at high level of ruby and python while being an order of magnitude faster performance. Quicklisp also is really neat, how many other package managers can load new dependencies without restarting your application? And I was learning it with idea that it's not just of historical or hobby interest but legitimately a good choice I can use for new programming projects today for many tasks, but I just learned something that makes it impossible for me to consider, which is complete lack of security of quicklisp. You go to the website and see sha256 hash and PGP signature for quicklisp download, awesome it seems at the security standard you expect for a package manager. But then the actual quicklisp client does all downloads over http with no verification. What this means in practical terms is basically if you use quicklisp, anyone on your local network can easily hack your computer, by MITM (man-in-the-middle) the traffic and serving you backdoored software when you install packages from quicklisp. mitm6 will MITM windows machines on normal networks, bettercap can MITM linux and os x on most networks. Aside from attackers on your local network there's plenty other scenarios, you can go near office of CL using company and set up a open WIFI access point with same name as company wifi and hack their developers, using quicklisp over something like Tor is extremely dangerous at present as it would let the exit node backdoor the packages you download, and then in less likely but still should be protected against scenarios is just if quicklisp.org or any router between you and it is compromised, you can be hacked.
  • Grannar från helvetet
    3 projects | /r/swedishproblems | 18 Feb 2023
  • Bettercap – Swiss Army Knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 Networks
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 3 Dec 2022
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 3 Dec 2022
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 3 Dec 2022
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2022
  • Hacker News top posts: Dec 3, 2022
    3 projects | /r/hackerdigest | 3 Dec 2022
    Bettercap – Swiss Army Knife for 802.11, BLE, IPv4 and IPv6 Networks\ (5 comments)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing iodine and bettercap you can also consider the following projects:

dnscat2

aircrack-ng - WiFi security auditing tools suite

miniProxy

MITMf - Framework for Man-In-The-Middle attacks

PHP-Proxy - Proxy Application built on php-proxy library ready to be installed on your server

mitmproxy - An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.

Nginx Proxy Manager - Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface

wifipumpkin3 - Powerful framework for rogue access point attack.

inlets - Get public TCP LoadBalancers for local Kubernetes clusters

pwnagotchi-display-password-plugin - Pwnagotchi plugin to display the most recently cracked password on the Pwnagotchi face

Swiperproxy - A Python-based HTTP/HTTPS-proxy.

Metasploit - Metasploit Framework