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Security with Go

You're reading from   Security with Go Explore the power of Golang to secure host, web, and cloud services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788627917
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Karthik Gaekwad Karthik Gaekwad
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

1. Introduction to Security with Go FREE CHAPTER 2. The Go Programming Language 3. Working with Files 4. Forensics 5. Packet Capturing and Injection 6. Cryptography 7. Secure Shell (SSH) 8. Brute Force 9. Web Applications 10. Web Scraping 11. Host Discovery and Enumeration 12. Social Engineering 13. Post Exploitation 14. Conclusions 15. Another Book You May Enjoy

Converting bytes to and from packets

In some cases, there may be raw bytes that you want to convert into a packet or vice versa. This example creates a simple packet and then obtains the raw bytes that make up the packet. The raw bytes are then taken and converted back into a packet to demonstrate the process.

In this example, we will create and serialize a packet using gopacket.SerializeLayers(). The packet consists of several layers: Ethernet, IP, TCP, and payload. During serialization, if any of the packets come back as nil, this means that it could not decode it into the proper layer (malformed or incorrect packet type). After serializing the packet into a buffer, we will get a copy of the raw bytes that make up the packet with buffer.Bytes(). With the raw bytes, we can then decode the data layer by layer using gopacket.NewPacket(). By taking advantage of SerializeLayers(...

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