# desaster/kippo

Kippo - SSH Honeypot

Repository: https://github.com/desaster/kippo
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kippo
Language: Python
License Family: other
Last push: 2023-11-19T21:03:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4481, "days_push": 1018, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1715, forks 279 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:26.235485+00:00)

## What it is
Kippo is a medium-interaction SSH honeypot written in Python that logs brute-force attacks and records the full shell interaction of attackers, including a fake filesystem and session replay. It is no longer maintained; its successor is the Cowrie fork.

## Use cases
- log SSH brute force attacks against a server
- record and replay attacker shell sessions
- study attacker behavior and downloaded malware
- deploy a decoy SSH service on a network
- collect threat intelligence from fake filesystem interactions

## When to choose
- you need a legacy SSH honeypot for research or historical compatibility
- you want to replay old Kippo session logs
- you are studying honeypot design

## When to avoid
- you want an actively maintained honeypot - use Cowrie instead
- you need Python 3 or modern Twisted support
- you need production-grade security tooling

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: security, logging, ssh
- domain: security, self-hosted, developer-tools
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: honeypot, ssh, intrusion-detection, threat-research, deprecated, linux

## Member repositories
- desaster/kippo (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:26.235485+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:34:18.015832+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/desaster/kippo (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:26.235485+00:00, sha 527020c6e7c5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.