sshtrix mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• sshtrix

Projektgeschichte

The official nullsecurity tools page lists sshtrix 0.0.3 as a 2015 release by noptrix and describes it as a fast multithreaded SSH login cracker supporting SSHv1 and SSHv2. The source tree README repeats the same design goal: keep the code simple, stable, fast, and modular so it can be extended or forked for other protocols.

The release archive's manual page is dated October 1, 2011 for version 0.0.1, indicating that the code predates the later GitHub-hosted release archive and package-manager formula.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The supplied Homebrew formula packages the 0.0.3 tarball from the nullsecurity tools repository and depends on libssh. Outside that formula and the upstream tools page, official adoption evidence is sparse, so the package history is best understood as niche security-tool packaging rather than broad CLI adoption.

Wie es verwendet wird

Official documentation presents sshtrix as a command-line tool for authorized password-auditing and testing scenarios, with host, range, username list, password list, thread-count, timeout, and output options documented in the manual page.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package nerds care about sshtrix mostly as an example of old-school security-tool packaging: a small C/libssh utility maintained inside a larger tool archive, surfaced through Homebrew with a pinned source tarball rather than a standalone release-heavy project.

Zeitleiste

• 2011: Release archive manual page identifies sshtrix 0.0.1.
• 2015: nullsecurity listed sshtrix 0.0.3 on its cracker tools page.
• 2023: nullsecurity tools repository re-committed the sshtrix subtree on GitHub.
• 2026: Homebrew formula still references the upstream 0.0.3 archive.

Related projects

• The nullsecurity cracker page lists sshtrix alongside other SSH and credential-auditing tools such as sshprank and against.

Quellen

• https://github.com/nullsecuritynet/tools/tree/main/cracker/sshtrix#readme
• https://nullsecurity.net/tools/cracker.html
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/HEAD/Formula/s/sshtrix.rb
• sshtrix-0.0.3 release archive manual page from upstream GitHub URL