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Centaurus-X/README.md

Centaurus-X (Cetux)

Tux, the Linux mascot

Industrial Automation · Secure Gateways · Linux Systems Engineering · Cybersecurity

Based in Germany — developing on and for Linux.

Linux Python C Rust Bash

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About

Systems engineer and developer building robust, secure, and practical infrastructure for industrial environments and high-security systems.

Current focus areas:

  • Network security appliances with TLS inspection and inline IPS (Suricata)
  • Network discovery and scanning tooling
  • Simulation & testing tools for industrial protocols (Modbus)
  • Comprehensive Linux systems engineering knowledge bases

Strong focus on real-world deployability, security, clean architecture, and honest, evidence-based project maturity labeling.


Active Projects

Security & Networking

  • os-nxtgenappliance — Alpha / Pre-Production OPNsense security plugin: outbound TLS inspection with inline Suricata IPS, inbound reverse-proxy/WAF, enforced DoT DNS, identity-aware scoped policy
  • Phimantic-IPS-Security-Appliance — standalone Suricata/TLS inspection appliance (C11 proxy, FlowBus verdict enforcement, fail-closed security model)
  • squid-ng — laboratory and research proxy fork (Squid-based two-proxy TLS inspection with external IDS/IPS verdict path)
  • advanced_network_scanner — cross-platform Rust LAN scanner with CLI-first architecture and optional WebSocket server

Industrial Testing

Engineering Knowledge

  • linux-engineering-playbook — Linux systems engineering documentation: GPU/CUDA, Proxmox VE, Python environments, services and administration

Archived Projects

Preserved pre-production snapshots. Frozen, read-only, kept for reference — not production-ready.


Technologies & Skills

Category Key Technologies
Languages Python (free-threading), C, Rust, Bash
Industrial / OT Modbus TCP, MQTT/MQTTS (mTLS, PKI), Fieldbus
Networking & IoT WebSockets, MQTT, TLS Inspection, Proxies
Security Suricata IPS/IDS, Deep Packet Inspection
Infrastructure Linux (systemd), FreeBSD/OPNsense, Proxmox VE, NVIDIA GPU/CUDA
Practices Health monitoring, release evidence & verification, dual licensing (GPL-3.0 + Commercial)

Contact

For questions about a specific project, please use the issue tracker of the respective repository.

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  1. advanced_modbus_server_dummy_endpoint advanced_modbus_server_dummy_endpoint Public

    Advanced Modbus Simulation Server 2.3.1 is a Python-based Modbus TCP simulator with a browser-based dashboard

    Python

  2. linux-engineering-playbook linux-engineering-playbook Public

    A practical Linux systems engineering playbook for GPU/CUDA, Proxmox, Python environments, Linux services, and administration.

    Python 1

  3. Phimantic-IPS-Security-Appliance Phimantic-IPS-Security-Appliance Public

    Suricata-only TLS inspection security appliance with C11 proxy, FlowBus verdict enforcement, H1.1-only TLS bumping, ruleset management, and web-based Suricata monitoring.

    C

  4. os-nxtgenappliance os-nxtgenappliance Public

    Fail-closed scoped application security for OPNsense: outbound TLS inspection with inline Suricata IPS, inbound reverse-proxy/WAF, enforced DoT DNS and identity-aware scoped policy. Alpha / pre-pro…

    Python