Port 11600Tempest Protocol

TCP and UDP port 11600 is assigned to the Tempest Protocol, registered to Francis Cianfrocca.

transport
tcp · udp

2 transports registered

in transit
cleartext

payload readable on path

assignment
official

registered with iana

risk
1/10

safe

lookups
0

rank 993 of 6,273 · top 16%

also known as tempest-port

Technical Details

what runs on :11600

Tempest Protocol is registered on port :11600 over tcp and udp to Francis Cianfrocca. We don't have a technical write-up for it beyond the IANA registry entry.

In nmap's internet-wide scan data this port is never observed open, so if it's open on your network it's more likely a custom or misconfigured service than the registered one.

find what's listening on :11600

this machine
# linux
sudo ss -tulpn 'sport = :11600'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :11600

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :11600
another host
nmap -sV -p T:11600 <host>
sudo nmap -sU -sV -p U:11600 <host>

run it? the handshake, the implementations you meet in the wild and the flags that matter come from the engineers who do.

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Security Information

exposure of :11600

risk score

1/ 10safe

routine exposure. this port is rarely the way in on its own — keep it patched and logged and move on.

in transit

cleartext

credentials and payloads are readable by anyone on path

assignment

official

registered with iana for this service — scanners fingerprint it by number

reachable over

tcp · udp

udp is connectionless — source addresses are trivially spoofed and it is a reflection favourite

security overview

no security notes recorded for :11600 yet

known exploits, hardening advice, what a compromise looks like — suggest an edit if you know its exposure.

ports registered around :11600, by lookups.

portservicerisk
:11576IPStor Managementcaution
:11623EMC XtremSW Distributed Configurationsafe

risk mix of the 2 listed

  • safe50%
  • caution50%

0 of 2 encrypted