dpkt 1.9.6

fast, simple packet creation / parsing, with definitions for the basic TCP/IP protocols

Installation

pip install dpkt

Documentation

https://dpkt.readthedocs.org/

Recent Stuff

[2021-02-07] Released 1.9.5, thanks a bunch to all contributors but mostly to @crocogorical for doing most of the work :)

1.9.5 Changelog:

• New example showing how to process truncated DNS packets (examples/print_dns_truncated.py).

• Corrected typo in BGP.notification attribute.

• BGP.Update.Attribute.MPReachNLRI.SNPA now inherits from dpkt.Packet.

• Byteorder is now specified when packing GRE optional fields.

• #517: Improvement to Radiotap class, supporting multi-byte and misaligned flags fields. Endianness is now enforced.

• Github issue template added for bug reporting.

• Compliance with flake8 formatting.

• asn1.py::utctime method now returns time in UTC, instead of local.

• Allow multiple InterfaceDescriptionBlocks with pcapng.Writer.

• SCTP decoder DATA chunk padding aligned to 4-bytes, and improved handling of .data field.

• IEEE80211 DELBA frame now works on big and little-endian architectures.

• Introduce compat.ntole which converts from network byte order to little-endian byte order, regardless of host endianness.

• Ethernet class now attempts to unpack the padding and trailer if present.

• Added anonymous property to cipher suites, which returns True if the cipher suite starts with ‘anon’.

• Added pfs (Perfect Forward Secrecy) and aead (Authenticated Encryption with Additional Data) properties to cipher suites.

• Added old CHACHA20-POLY1305 related cipher suites to TLS CipherSuite list.

• Remove redundant num_compression_methods from TLSClientHello

• Testing improved from 90% coverage to over 99%.

About

This code is based on dpkt code lead by Dug Song and is now being maintained and improved by an extended set of contributors and developers.

LICENSE

BSD 3-Clause