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Sponsor legba

legba is open source under GPL-3.0 and developed in the open. If your team uses it in penetration tests, red team engagements, or security research, please consider sponsoring its continued development:

Sponsor evilsocket on GitHub

Why sponsor

legba is maintained by a single author. Sponsorship directly funds:

  • New protocol plugins and bugfixes for the ones you already use.
  • Performance work to keep legba measurably faster than the alternatives (benchmark).
  • AI agent integration through the Model Context Protocol server, so legba stays usable from Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and custom agents.
  • Documentation, recipes, and worked examples like the ones on this site.
  • Test infrastructure (Docker compose stacks, mock servers, CI runners) so credential testing tools can be developed and validated reproducibly.

If your company runs pentest engagements with legba, sponsoring is the most direct way to keep the tool you depend on healthy and current.

Corporate sponsorship

If your organization wants a formal sponsorship arrangement (invoicing, recognition on the README, named contributor tier, or coordinated roadmap input), reach out directly:

Open an issue or DM through any of the above channels and we can work out the details.

Other ways to support

If sponsorship is not an option, these are all genuinely useful:

  • Star and watch the repository to help visibility.
  • Report issues and reproduction steps when something breaks against a server in the wild.
  • Send PRs, especially for new protocols, plugins, and bugfixes.
  • Write recipes for attack flows you find yourself running often, and contribute them back.
  • Share benchmarks if you have reproducible numbers against Medusa, Ncrack, Patator, or other tools so the comparison page can stay accurate.

License reminder

legba is GPL-3.0. Sponsorship does not change the license, and the project remains free to use, modify, and distribute under those terms. Sponsorship is purely an optional, voluntary contribution to the project's sustainability.