Google Releases Open Source Nogotofail Network Traffic Security Testing Tool

An anonymous reader writes: Google today introduced a new tool for testing network traffic security called Nogotofail. The company has released it as an open source project available on GitHub, meaning anyone can use it, contribute new features, provide support for more platforms, and do anything else with the end goal of helping to improve the security of the Internet. The tool's main purpose is to test whether the devices or applications you are using are safe against known TLS/SSL vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Nogotofail works on Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, Chrome OS, OSX, and "in fact any device you use to connect to the Internet."

Comments

Any device?

[ArcadeMan]

Nogotofail works on Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, Chrome OS, OSX, and "in fact any device you use to connect to the Internet."

There's nothing for the e-ink Kindle nor the Nintendo DSi, you insensitive clod!

Github

[NotInHere]

Its interesting that companies that have competing products to github (codeplex, google code) release stuff on github.

Re:Github

[EETech1]

I wonder why Google did not put it in the Play Store?

Now I need to sideload apps to be secure?

Re:Nice name

[93 Escort Wagon]

I can't think of a name that would poke any harder at Apple.

They were afraid that "isopensslbrokenthisweek.org" would be too hard to type.

Re:Does it check for MITM?

[hlee]

Yes, according to https://github.com/google/nogo...

Re:Does it check for MITM?

[Animats]

No, that's not a man-in-the-middle detector. It's a MITM attacker for test purposes.