Packet Sender

Presented at DEF CON 30 (2022), Aug. 12, 2022, noon (115 minutes)

Packet Sender is a free open-source (GPLv2) cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) tool used daily by security researchers, college students, and professional developers to troubleshoot and reverse engineer network-based devices. Its core features are crafting and listening for UDP, TCP, and SSL/TLS packets via IPv4 or IPv6. It can listen simultaneously on any number of ports while sending to any UDP, TCP, SSL/TLS packet server. It is available for direct download or through the Winget, Homebrew, Debian, or Snap repos.

Audience: Offensive, Defensive, Developers, Testers


Presenters:

  • Dan Nagle
    Dan Nagle has over 15 years of software development experience. He has written and published apps for desktop, mobile, servers, and embedded. He is the author and inventor of Packet Sender, an app used daily by security researchers, featured in manuals from major tech companies, and is taught in universities around the world. He is also the author of 2 network-related patents and a book published by CRC Press. His open source contributions have received international awards, and he has presented at many developer conferences about them.

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