How To Install sslsplit on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sslsplit on Fedora 34.
What is sslsplit
SSLsplit is a tool for man-in-the-middle attacks against SSL/TLS encrypted network connections. Connections are transparently intercepted through a network address translation engine and redirected to SSLsplit. SSLsplit terminates SSL/TLS and initiates a new SSL/TLS connection to the original destination address, while logging all data transmitted. SSLsplit is intended to be useful for network forensics and penetration testing. It uses Linux netfilter REDIRECT and TPROXY
We can use yum or dnf to install sslsplit on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sslsplit.
Install sslsplit on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install sslsplit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sslsplit
Install sslsplit on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install sslsplit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sslsplit
How To Uninstall sslsplit on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the sslsplit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sslsplit
sslsplit Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/sslsplit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3/09444ca9240b1e1cd1ed01c655184846886625
/usr/share/doc/sslsplit
/usr/share/doc/sslsplit/AUTHORS.md
/usr/share/doc/sslsplit/NEWS.md
/usr/share/doc/sslsplit/README.md
/usr/share/doc/sslsplit/SECURITY.md
/usr/share/man/man1/sslsplit.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sslsplit on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.