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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

Decoding packets faster

If we know what layers to expect, we can use existing structures to store the packet information instead of creating new structs for every packet that takes time and memory. It is faster to use DecodingLayerParser. It is like marshaling and unmarshaling data.

This example demonstrates how to create layer variables at the beginning of the program and reuse the same variables over and over instead of creating new ones for each packet. A parser is created with gopacket.NewDecodingLayerParser(), which we provide with the layer variables we want to use. One caveat here is that it will only decode the layer types that you created initially.

The following is the code implementation of this example:

package main

import (
"fmt"
"github.com/google/gopacket"
"github.com/google/gopacket/layers"
"github.com/google/gopacket/pcap...
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