SMRTR ProgrammingJul 6, 2026Hacker News

Making a wazuh server in Python from scratch for fun and maybe profit

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A developer reverse-engineered the Wazuh agent protocol to build wazoo, a Python-based Wazuh manager replacement that handles agent enrollment, AES-CBC decryption, zlib decompression, and ACK responses without running the real Wazuh server.

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