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Gentoo based Linux distribution for penetration testing
Linux distribution
Pentoo is a Live CD and Live USB designed for penetration testing and security assessment. Based on Gentoo Linux, Pentoo is provided both as 32 and 64-bit installable live CD. Pentoo is also available as an overlay 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.
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'
Built on hardened linux, including a hardened kernel and toolchain
Hardened kernel with extra patches
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
Tools
Tools are installed with versioned ebuilds and open-ended ebuilds, making it possible to pull in the latest subversions and still have installs tracked by package management. The following tool categories are included:
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.
Pentoo Linux 2010.0
