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PassTheCert-rs

Tool to authenticate to an LDAP/S server with a certificate through Schannel written in Rust. 🦀

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GITHUB · launched Sep 9, 2026 · 37 upvotes (top 23%) · 1 view

Niche: penetration testing tools · 138 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -43% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Security
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • active-directory
  • pentest
  • pentest-tool
  • red-team
  • rust

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Could you build this?

No It is a low-level Active Directory security tool written in Rust implementing Windows Schannel authentication and raw LDAP/S protocol manipulation for certificate-based attacks (AD CS).

What it would actually take: Requires expert Windows internals, SSPI/Schannel API bindings, ASN.1 parsing, and low-level LDAP network protocol implementation in Rust. Writing functional security tooling that manipulates Kerberos/NTLM/PKINIT certificate authentication directly via OS security interfaces requires specialized offensive security and systems programming experience.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 342 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #73 of 343 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 308 days after the earliest competitor.

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