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+# pancap
+
+## Idea
+
+If you get access to a [PCAP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pcap) file, for example during a CTF or captured on your own, you usually have the problem of overlooking all the relevant information to get a basic idea of the capture file. This gets worse if the capture file includes lots of white noise or irrelevant traffic - often included in the capture file to cloak *interesting* packets in a bunch of packets to YouTube, Reddit, Twitter and others.
+
+*pancap* addresses this problem. With multiple submodules, it analyzes the given PCAP file and extracts useful information out of it. In many cases, this saves you a lot of time and can point you into the right direction.
+
+## Usage
+
+Simply run
+
+`go get git.darknebu.la/maride/pancap`
+
+This will also build `pancap` and place it into your `GOBIN` directory - means you can directly execute it!
+
+In any use case, you need to specify the file you want to analyze, simply handed over to pancap with the `-file` flag.
+
+Example usage:
+
+`pancap -file ~/Schreibtisch/mitschnitt.pcapng`
+
+This will give you a result similar to this:
+
+<script id="asciicast-x19gUpdnQoeUx498mPS0Grw6B" src="https://asciinema.org/a/x19gUpdnQoeUx498mPS0Grw6B.js" async></script>
+
+## Contributions
+
+... yes please! There are still a lot of modules missing.
+If you are brave enough, you can even implement another Link Type. Pancap currently only supports `Ethernet` (which, to be honest, fits most cases well), but `USB` might be interesting, too. Especially sniffed keyboard and mouse packets are hard to analyze by hand...