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impacket-rs

High-performance, memory-safe pure-Rust redesign of Impacket protocols and Active Directory tools for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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GITHUB · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 88 upvotes (top 48%) · 0 views

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
  • impacket
  • impacket-library
  • impacket-mssqlclient
  • impacket-secretsdump
  • kerberos
  • +11 more

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Could you build this?

No Reimplementing Impacket's SMB, Kerberos, NTLM, and MS-RPC protocols and AD tooling correctly and securely requires deep Windows protocol and security expertise that vibe coding can't substitute for.

What it would actually take: A real version means a Rust implementation of many Windows network protocols (SMB, DCE/RPC, Kerberos, NTLM, LDAP, MS-DRSR) matched byte-for-byte against Microsoft's specs and real Windows behavior. It needs protocol engineers who can test against Active Directory lab environments, plus a security review because these tools are dual-use and bugs are easy to introduce. Expect a multi-year, team-scale effort.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 3225 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1522 of 3226 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 376 days after the earliest competitor.

  • shellwing · github · 2026-10-18 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • platty · github · 2026-10-13 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.64
  • OxiSH, a modern, memory-safe SSH server · hn · 2026-08-13 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • netprobe-ir · github · 2026-09-12 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • Z-Jail · hn · 2026-07-01 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • gozarbin · github · 2026-09-16 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • WolfStack · hn · 2026-03-08 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • gash · github · 2026-11-06 · 100 upvotes · similarity 0.62

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