Re: [DLC]Netcat and SSH

Yeah, absolutely. You can do the same thing with telnet.

I once tried sending an email by sending raw SMTP commands through telnet. I
would've been l33t had I gotten past the HELO command.. :(

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:02 PM, anthony kasza <[email protected]>wrote:

> Sorry. My thoughts weren't articulated very concretely in my previous
> email...
>
> I was reading around saw that if you could connect to a web server and
> request a page with netcat. For example, the following command would
> receive a reply with the http header and html page of depaul's
> website.
>
> echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.1\nHost:depaul.edu\n\n" | nc depaul.edu 80
>
> I was wondering if you could use netcat as a general purpose client
> application as long as you piped the correct header/protocol/packet
> information to it. For example could I pipe netcat some data to place
> in a datagram, contact a server on udp 53, and receive a dns answer?
>
> I don't know how the keys would be handled.
>
> -Anthony
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Matthew P Kemp <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I guess I don't understand the question.  You can tunnel through ssh.
> > But SSH relies on keys to communicate.  If you are using netcat, how
> > would you handle the key exchange as well as the encryption.
> >
> > --
> > Matthew P Kemp
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:46 PM, anthony kasza <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I was playing around today and was wondering if it is possible to use
> >> netcat to ssh to a box. If so, is it possible to use nc to ssh to
> >> localhost? Thanks for the thoughts.
> >>
> >> -Anthony
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