Envoy - An Application Level Firewall For Linux |
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Envoy allows for the simple creation of powerful firewalling rulesets using an intuitive gui interface for the creation of rules on an application basis. |
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Features: Blocking/Allowing TCP connections on an application basis Hash calculation to confirm file integrity GUI (Envoy can also operate without one) Multi user support Kernel module based technology Widespread compatibility due to the use of C and Wxwidgets Tested with KDE and Gnome on different 2.6 series kernels |
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Why do I need this? Control applications. Make sure they only go where intended. Mail client to mail server. Browser to proxy. Nothing else F.ex. exploited mail client can't connect to attacker because it may only connect to mail server Interesting to see Acrobat phone home. Or Firefox. Or ... |