# dheater

**Repository Path**: lealmeng/dheater

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: dheater
- **Description**: D(HE)ater is a proof of concept implementation of the D(HE)at  attack (CVE-2002-20001) through which denial-of-service can be performed by enforcing the Diffie-Hellman key exchange. (read-only clone of the original GitLab project)
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2026-02-27
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-03

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# D(HE)ater

D(HE)ater is the proof-of-concept implementation of the [D(HE)at attack](http://dheatattack.gitlab.io)
([CVE-2002-20001](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-20001)). For further information vist
[PoC code section of the project page](https://dheatattack.gitlab.io/dheater).

## License

The code is available under the terms of Apache License Version 2.0. 
A non-comprehensive, but straightforward description and also the full license text can be found at 
[Choose an open source license](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/apache-2.0/) website.

## Credits

D(HE)ater uses [CryptoLyzer](https://gitlab.com/coroner/cryptolyzer) to check DHE support of TLS/SSH
services and also to generate the traffic necessary to perform D(HE)at attack.