shimmer is a pair of small programs (a client and a server) that provide an
alternative to port knocking program such as tumbler and are used to hide a
valuable port (such as a hidden web server or SSH) on a public IP address.
WWW: http://shimmer.sourceforge.net/
cleanup: Remove expired ports:
2022-03-31 security/revealrk: Deprecate, marked BROKEN on 12+ in 2018
2022-03-31 devel/apache-commons-modeler: Abandoned upstream, last release in
2013
2022-03-31 security/afl: Abandoned upstream, no new release since 2017. Please
consider using security/afl++ instead
2022-03-31 www/mod_line_edit: Abandoned upstream, last release in 2006, Apache
includes mod_sed
2022-03-31 www/myfaces: Unsupported by upstream, released in 2005
2022-03-31 www/mod_backtrace: Abandoned upstream in 2012 (version 2.0)
2022-03-31 security/base: Broken with PHP 7+, forked here
https://github.com/NathanGibbs3/BASE/
2022-03-31 security/find-zlib: Deprecated, no longer relevant
2022-03-31 security/razorback-clamavNugget: Abandonware, last release in 2012
and listed as alpha quality by upstream
2022-03-31 security/shimmer: Abandonware, last release in 2008
2022-03-31 security/kripp: Abandonware, upstream returns 404 and last release
was back in 2007
2022-03-31 security/ipfilter2dshield: Abandonware, no word of it on upstream web
site
2022-03-31 security/sha: Obsolete, we have tools in base
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security/*: Deprecate and mark ports BROKEN that are dead upstream and/or
abandonware
security/afl - Migrate to security/afl++
security/amap - Abandoned upstream, last release 10+ years ago
security/amavis-stats - Upstream is dead and last release was back in 2005
security/arirang - Abandoned (website also refers to Ruby 1.9) and a 9+ year
old webserver security scanner isn't useful today
security/axTLS - Very outdated and abandoned, current version in tree was
released in 2013 and last by upstream in 2019
security/base - Broken with PHP 7+, forked here
https://github.com/NathanGibbs3/BASE/
security/bruteforceblocker - Abandonware, please consider using
security/sshguard
security/cfs - Deprecated upstream, reference:
https://www.bayofrum.net/cgi-bin/fossil/cfs/index
security/cisco-torch - Unfetchable, dead upstream
security/cp2fwb - Used with deprecated software Firewall Builder
security/dcetest - Targets deprecated protocol by Microsoft in favour of .NET
security/doscan - Abandonware, last release in 2014. Please consider using
security/masscan or sysutils/pnscan
security/find-zlib - Deprecated, no longer relevant
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Standardize placement and style of WWW: lines, and in some cases
remove ^M from line endings.
List of files with "issues" supplied by: Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua>
Add shimmer 0.1.0, perl implementation that hides a valuable port on
your server.
PR: ports/119512
Submitted by: Felippe de Meirelles Motta <lippemail at gmail.com>
