Scalpel vs Sslstrip: Which AI Fitness Assistant tool is Best in 2025?

Scalpel is an open-source, high-performance file carving utility pre-installed on Kali Linux at /usr/bin/scalpel, designed for recovering deleted or hidden files from disk images and raw block devices. Developed by Golden G. Richard III as an enhanced rewrite of Foremost 0.69, Scalpel leverages header and footer signatures to extract files, bypassing file system metadata. Supporting formats like JPEG, PDF, MP3, and DOC, it’s a critical tool for digital forensic investigators, incident responders, and ethical hackers conducting cyber forensic investigations and file recovery. Scalpel’s multithreading, GPU acceleration, and regular expression support make it exceptionally fast and versatile.

Sslstrip is an open-source cybersecurity tool designed for executing HTTPS downgrade attacks, enabling man-in-the-middle (MITM) interception of supposedly secure web traffic.Sslstrip is widely used by ethical hackers and penetration testers to test network security by stripping SSL/TLS encryption from HTTPS connections and redirecting them to unencrypted HTTP. This allows attackers to capture sensitive data like login credentials in controlled environments.