blackhat-go/bhg resource

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Companion code samples for the No Starch Press book 'Black Hat Go: Go Programming for Hackers and Pentesters'. It contains example Go programs covering network scanning, proxies, DNS tunneling, packet sniffing, exploit development, cryptography, and other offensive security techniques.

Use cases

• learn offensive security tooling in Go
• build a TCP port scanner in Go
• write a DNS tunneling C2 channel
• scrape HTML data with Go
• implement packet sniffing tools
• learn to build HTTP servers and proxies in Go
• study exploit development examples in Go

When to choose

• you are reading or studying the Black Hat Go book
• you want practical Go examples of offensive security techniques
• you are a pentester learning to write custom Go tooling

When to avoid

• you need a production-ready security tool rather than educational samples
• you want defensive security or blue-team tooling
• you are not comfortable with the Go programming language

Facets

learning-resource · maturity maintenance

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