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Pentoo
Gentoo based Linux distribution for penetration testing From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pentoo is a Live CD and Live USB designed for penetration testing and security assessment.[3][4][5][6] Based on Gentoo Linux, Pentoo is provided both as 32 and 64-bit installable live CD. Pentoo is also available as an overlay[7] for an existing Gentoo installation. It features packet injection patched Wi-Fi drivers, GPGPU cracking software, and many tools for penetration testing and security assessment. The Pentoo kernel includes grsecurity and PAX hardening and extra patches - with binaries compiled from a hardened toolchain with the latest nightly versions of some tools available.
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Features
- Available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, the latter having a significant speed increase from 32 bits
- Includes the required environment to crack passwords using GPGPU with openCL and CUDA configured 'out of the box'[8][9][10]
- Built on hardened linux, including a hardened kernel and toolchain
- Hardened kernel with extra patches[11]
- Uses a Pentoo overlay, which allows tools to be built on top of a standard Gentoo build
- Support for full disk encryption with LUKS if installed on HDD
- Automated installation[12]
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Tools
Tools are installed with versioned ebuilds and open-ended ebuilds,[13] making it possible to pull in the latest subversions and still have installs tracked by package management. The following tool categories are included:[14]
- Analyzer
- Bluetooth
- Cracker
- Database
- Development
- Exploit
- Footprint
- Forensics
- Forging
- Fuzzers
- Misc
- MitM
- Pentoo
- Proxy
- RCE
- Scanner
- SIP-VOIP
- Wireless
Releases
Pentoo uses rolling releases with periodic ISO snapshots of the latest committed updates.
References
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