gpw(1) [debian man page]

GPW(1)							      General Commands Manual							    GPW(1)

NAME

       gpw - program to generate pronounceable passwords

SYNOPSIS

       gpw [number_of_passwords [length_of_passwords]]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual page documents briefly the gpw command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the origi-
       nal program does not have a manual page.

       Gpw is a program that generate pronounceable passwords of whatever length is desidered. It uses the statistics of three-letter combinations
       (trigraphs) of the english system dictionary. It is based on the ideas in Morrie Gasser's password generator for Multics, and Dan Edwards's
       generator for CTSS.  FIPS Standard 181 describes a similar digraph-based generator, derived from Gasser's.

OPTIONS

       This program accepts two optional numbers as command-line arguments.  The first value is the number of password to generate, the second one
       is the length of the passwords required, up to 99.  Defaults are 10 and 8 respectively.

NOTE

       Password length should be choosen consistently with the encryption standard used.
       So, a value of eight is useful with DES encryption, and a longer value should be used with MD5 encryption.

SEE ALSO

       passwd(1),pwgen(1).

AUTHOR

       This program has been written by Tom Van Vleck <thvv@multicians.org> in 1994.

CREDITS

       Based  on the ideas in Morrie Gasser's password generator for Multics, and Dan Edwards's generator for CTSS.  FIPS Standard 181 describes a
       similar digraph-based generator, derived from Gasser's.
       This manual page was written by Francesco P. Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used  by  others),
       who also modified and packaged sources to port it under GNU/Linux.

								   Aug 24, 2001 							    GPW(1)

cryptcat(1)							     Cryptcat							       cryptcat(1)

NAME

       cryptcat - twofish encryption enabled version of nc(1)

SYNOPSIS

       cryptcat -k secret [-options] hostname port[s] [ports]
       cryptcat -k secret -l -p port [-options] [hostname] [port]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents briefly the cryptcat command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page. It only documents the features specific to cryptcat and not the features that  are  described
       at length in the manpage for nc(1).
       If you do not know nc then the chances are you won't have much use for this manpage.

       cryptcat  can  act  as a tcp or udp client or server - connecting to or listening on a socket, while otherwise working as the standard Unix
       command cat(1).

       cryptcat takes a password as a salt to encrypt the data being sent over the connection.	Without a specified password cryptcat will default
       to  the	hardcoded  password  ``metallica''. Needless to say, failure to specify a different password makes the connection as good as unen-
       crypted.

OPTIONS

       This programs does not follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary  of  the
       options specific to cryptcat is included below.

       -h
	      Show summary of options.

       -k secret password
	      Change the shared secret password to be used to establish a connection.

BUGS

       This version of cryptcat does not support the -e command command line option available in some versions of nc.

SEE ALSO

       nc(1), cat(1).
       /usr/share/doc/cryptcat/README.gz
       /usr/share/doc/cryptcat/README.cryptcat
       /usr/share/doc/cryptcat/README.Debian

AUTHOR

       The original netcat was written by hobbit@avian.org.

       cryptcat is the work of farm9 <info@farm9.org> with the help of Dan F, Jeff Nathan, Matt W, Frank Knobbe, Dragos, Bill Weiss, Jimmy.

       This manual page was written by Lars Bahner <bahner@debian.org> for Debian.

Debian GNU/Linux						  August 9, 2001						       cryptcat(1)