ssldump vs netpeek

ssldump

ssldump - (de-facto repository gathering patches around the cyberspace) (by adulau)

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netpeek

Layer 7 sniffer (by darshanime)

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ssldump		netpeek
	Project
2	Mentions	2
226	Stars	57
-	Growth	-
7.5	Activity	10.0
6 days ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
C	Language	Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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ssldump

Posts with mentions or reviews of ssldump. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-13.

Tracing HTTP Requests with Tcpflow
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Nov 2022

I recall seeing a thread somewhere saying tcpflow would not add this capability and they point people to ssldump [1][2] and even that has some limitations.
[1] - https://github.com/adulau/ssldump
[2] - https://linux.die.net/man/1/ssldump
Ssldump v1.3 – Many bugs fixed including memory leaks and a new JSON export
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Feb 2021

netpeek

Posts with mentions or reviews of netpeek. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-20.

Application Traffic with eBPF
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2023

Isn't this how tcpdump/ngrep/gopacket work? For parsing the HTTP protocol, I find netpeek effective
[1] https://github.com/darshanime/netpeek
Tracing HTTP Requests with Tcpflow
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Nov 2022

There is also netpeek[1] which has better filtering capabilities and UX overall. It supports ngrep like bpf filters which we found useful.
1: https://github.com/darshanime/netpeek

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ssldump and netpeek you can also consider the following projects:

ecapture - Capture SSL/TLS text content without a CA certificate using eBPF. This tool is compatible with Linux/Android x86_64/aarch64.

tcpflow - TCP/IP packet demultiplexer. Download from:

haproxy - HAProxy Load Balancer's development branch (mirror of git.haproxy.org)

lsquic - LiteSpeed QUIC and HTTP/3 Library

wolfssl - The wolfSSL library is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. wolfSSL supports up to TLS 1.3!

SoftEther - Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable.

Suricata - Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata community.

tls-scan - An Internet scale, blazing fast SSL/TLS scanner ( non-blocking, event-driven )

tlspuffin - A Dolev-Yao-model-guided fuzzer for TLS