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DSniff 

DSniff is a packet sniffer and set of traffic analysis tools written by Dug Song, a computer security researcher at the University of Michigan. Unlike tcpdump and other low-level packet sniffers, dSniff also includes tools that decode information (passwords, most infamously) sent across the network, rather than simply capturing and printing the raw data. Other tools included with the package include "sshmitm" and "webmitm", programs designed to intercept SSH version 1 communications and web traffic respectively with a man-in-the-middle attack, "msgsnarf", a program designed to intercept AOL Instant Messenger conversations, and "macof", a program designed to break poorly-designed Ethernet switches by flooding them with packets with bogus MAC addresses.

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