Nixploit

Security environments are notoriously brittle. Dependencies conflict, updates break scripts, and maintaining a consistent toolkit across different machines is a challenge.

Nixploit leverages the power of Nix Flakes to solve this. It provides a purely declarative, reproducible penetration testing environment. Instead of maintaining a heavy virtual machine, Nixploit allows you to spin up a shell containing all your essential security tools with a single command. It guarantees that if it works on my machine, it will work on yours.

Why Nix for Security?

  • Instant Provisioning: No installation wizards or broken apt-get commands. The entire suite is downloaded and linked into an isolated environment automatically.
  • Zero Dependency Hell: Nix ensures that tools with conflicting library requirements can coexist without issues.
  • Ephemeral or Permanent: Use nix develop to drop into a temporary shell for a specific engagement, or install it into your profile for daily use.

Usage

Nixploit is designed for speed and reliability. It abstracts the complexity of package management, allowing you to focus on the testing.

# Example: Launching the environment directly from GitHub
# This downloads dependencies and opens a shell with all tools ready
nix develop github:otaleghani/nixploit