tlsx mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• tlsx

Projektgeschichte

The project belongs to the ProjectDiscovery security-tooling ecosystem rather than to the older Unix system-administration lineage. The README positions it around practical TLS reconnaissance features: multiple connection modes, certificate fields, TLS version and cipher inspection, JARM and JA3 fingerprints, and misconfiguration checks.

The tool has broadened beyond one-shot host probing. Current official documentation also describes Certificate Transparency log streaming, allowing tlsx to act as a near-real-time feed of newly issued certificates and host metadata.

Adoptionsgeschichte

In package-manager terms, tlsx is still a specialist security package: the supplied source facts list Homebrew and Nix packages, matching its audience of operators who compose recon tools from the shell rather than installing a desktop scanner.

Wie es verwendet wird

The documented usage model is pipeline-friendly. tlsx accepts hosts, IPs, CIDRs, ASNs, URLs, ports, and files; emits text or JSON; and the README explicitly demonstrates piping certificate-derived names into dnsx and httpx for follow-on discovery.

Common package-nerd use is to install it as a small CLI in a security toolbox, feed it asset lists, and use JSON lines with jq or other ProjectDiscovery tools for automation.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

tlsx matters to package-focused CLI users because it turns TLS inspection into a composable Unix-style command. Its value is less about being a general TLS library and more about packaging certificate, cipher, fingerprint, and CT-log collection behind one installable executable.

Zeitleiste

• 2022: Official README examples showed tlsx v0.0.1 output and JSON scan records.
• 2025: GitHub release notes for v1.2.0 documented Certificate Transparency log streaming support.
• 2026: The batch source facts list tlsx in Homebrew and Nix.

Related projects

• ProjectDiscovery dnsx and httpx are shown in the tlsx README as downstream tools for filtering discovered DNS names and probing active web services.
• The README acknowledges zcrypto, cfssl, and ciphersuite.info as supporting components for TLS modes and cipher classification.

Quellen

• https://github.com/projectdiscovery/tlsx#readme
• https://github.com/projectdiscovery/tlsx/releases
• input.source_facts.package-manager