ssh-mitm VS cowrie

Compare ssh-mitm vs cowrie and see what are their differences.

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ssh-mitm cowrie
2 15
1,581 4,909
- 1.7%
0.0 9.3
almost 3 years ago 6 days ago
C Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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ssh-mitm

Posts with mentions or reviews of ssh-mitm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-06.
  • Awesome Penetration Testing
    124 projects | dev.to | 6 Oct 2021
    SSH MITM - Intercept SSH connections with a proxy; all plaintext passwords and sessions are logged to disk.
  • Which tool to use for SSH man in the middle attacks
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jun 2021
    Hello,

    at my university, we are learning, how to use ssh for server administration.

    We learned, that ssh is secure, but there are some tools, which allows man in the middle attacks on ssh.

    I found following tools:

    * https://github.com/jtesta/ssh-mitm - most starred, but uses an outdated OpenSSH version and it's complicated to setup :-(

cowrie

Posts with mentions or reviews of cowrie. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ssh-mitm and cowrie you can also consider the following projects:

mitm-omegle - Watch strangers talk on Omegle (man in the middle attack explained for kids)

tpotce - 🍯 T-Pot - The All In One Honeypot Platform 🐝

pyrdp - RDP monster-in-the-middle (mitm) and library for Python with the ability to watch connections live or after the fact

endlessh - SSH tarpit that slowly sends an endless banner

sftpretty - Provides multi-threaded routines and high level protocol abstractions for a pretty quick & simple file transfer experience. Drop in replacement for pysftp.

opencanary - Modular and decentralised honeypot

aws-gate - Better AWS SSM Session manager CLI client

MISP - MISP (core software) - Open Source Threat Intelligence and Sharing Platform

docker-sshd - Minimal Alpine Linux Docker image with sshd exposed and rsync installed

ssh-mitm - SSH-MITM - ssh audits made simple

SSLproxy - Transparent SSL/TLS proxy for decrypting and diverting network traffic to other programs, such as UTM services, for deep SSL inspection

django-honeypot - 🍯 Generic honeypot utilities for use in django projects.