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Kautilya is a toolkit which provides various payloads for a Human Interface Device which may help in breaking in a computer. The toolkit is written in Ruby.

• The Windows payloads and modules are written mostly in powershell (in combination with native commands) and are tested on Windows 7 and Windows 8.

• The Linux payloads are mostly shell scripts (those installed by default) in combination with commands. These are tested on Ubuntu 11.

• The OS X payloads are shell scripts (those installed by default) with usage of native commands. Tested on OS X Lion running on a VMWare

In principle, Kautilya should work with any HID capable of acting as a keyboard. Kautilya has been tested on Teensy++2.0 and Teensy 3.0 from pjrc.com. Updates about Kautilya can be found most of the times at my blog http://labofapenetrationtester.blogspot.com/ and google group.

Please raise an issue if you encounter a bug.

For any queries or feedback, post to official google group http://groups.google.com/group/kautilya-users or mail me at nikhil d0t uitrgpv at gmail.com

A five part blog post on my blog could be useful for those new to HID and Kautilya:

Part 1: http://labofapenetrationtester.blogspot.in/2012/04/teensy-usb-hid-for-penetration-testers.html

Part 2: http://labofapenetrationtester.blogspot.in/2012/04/teensy-usb-hid-for-penetration-testers_04.html

Part 3: http://labofapenetrationtester.blogspot.in/2012/04/teensy-usb-hid-for-penetration-testers_25.html

Part 4: http://labofapenetrationtester.blogspot.in/2012/05/teensy-usb-hid-for-penetration-testers.html

Part 5: http://labofapenetrationtester.blogspot.in/2012/09/usb-hid-for-pen-testers-part5.html