Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: EnkelenaH <[email protected]> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
* Package name : python-bbpb Version : 1.4.2 Upstream Contact: NCC Group Plc <[email protected]> * URL : https://github.com/nccgroup/blackboxprotobuf * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : Library for working with protobuf messages without a protobuf type definition Protobuf is a binary serialization format from Google which can be used as a more efficient alternative to formats like JSON or XML. Developers can define the message format in a .proto file and use the protobuf compiler to generate message handlers in their language of choice. The protobuf encoding is binary, and unlike json/xml not human readable or easy to modify by hand. The format also takes advantage of both sides having the message definition and strips out much of the type information. This is good for efficiency, but increases the difficulty analyzing or modifying the network traffic. . Blackbox protobuf is designed to allow working with protocol buffers without the message definition. It was originally implemented as a Burp extension for decoding and modifying messages during mobile pentests, but has also been used for reverse engineering and forensics tooling. The package is a dependency for new versions of the time-decode package. I will maintain it under the Debian Python team salsa namespace. Regards, EnkelenaH
