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Every documented port, filed by what it actually does. Each row states its size, its risk mix and its transport split — open one to read the full listing.

categories
16
ports filed
5,247

4,549 filings · ports can sit in more than one

largest
1,560

network services

avg risk
1.9

safe across the corpus

encrypted
210

4% of ports

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Corpus Composition

5,247 ports

risk mix

  • safe76%
  • caution20%
  • risk3%
  • critical0%

transport

  • tcp52%
  • udp48%
  • sctp0%

a port can speak more than one transport

number range

  • well-known · 0–1023747
  • registered · 1024–491514,495
  • dynamic · 49152–655355

Category Directory

ordered by size
categoryrisk mixtransportports
  • Network Services
    avg 2.6
    tcp 1407udp 12451560
  • System
    avg 2.7
    tcp 869udp 750936
  • Security
    avg 3.1
    tcp 333udp 239376
  • Remote Access
    avg 3.8
    tcp 190udp 129207
  • Web Services
    avg 3.1
    tcp 182udp 86191
  • Voice and Chat
    avg 3.3
    tcp 151udp 114181
  • File Transfer
    avg 3.4
    tcp 161udp 112178
  • IoT
    avg 3.5
    tcp 134udp 122161
  • Gaming
    avg 3.5
    tcp 103udp 102155
  • Databases
    avg 3.7
    tcp 137udp 101142
  • Media
    avg 2.2
    tcp 110udp 96123
  • Cloud
    avg 4.1
    tcp 103udp 52114
  • Mobile
    avg 2.1
    tcp 75udp 6881
  • Email
    avg 3.2
    tcp 60udp 3462
  • Streaming
    avg 3.0
    tcp 42udp 2847
  • Virtualization
    avg 3.7
    tcp 29udp 2035