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Mallet - Towards a Generic Intercepting Proxy

Hack In The Box Security Conference via YouTube

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Explore the development of Mallet, a new open-source intercepting proxy, in this 57-minute conference talk from the Hack In The Box Security Conference. Dive into the challenges of creating a generic intercepting proxy and learn how Mallet addresses common issues. Discover the tool's use of the Netty framework, its drag-and-drop graph-based user interface, and datastore capabilities. Understand how Mallet simplifies the construction of protocol stacks, handles timeouts, and supports various transports. Gain insights into the tool's ability to intercept and process different types of data, including TCP, UDP, SCTP, and more. Follow along as the speaker demonstrates key features, such as recalculating checksums, using Groovy scripts, and working with JSON objects. Explore the potential applications and future developments of this versatile security tool.

Syllabus

Introduction
About StPost
Why do we care
UDP Pipeline
Why HTTP
Prior work
Objectives
Nettie
Transport Services
Pipelines
Demo
Recalculating the checksum
Groovy script
JSON object
Intercept handler
Example
Nodes
Next Steps
Script Handler

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