JA3 Community Fork Maintenance

Operational status page for friuns2/ja3, a community-maintained fork of the archived JA3 repository.

Project Purpose

JA3 generates deterministic TLS handshake fingerprints (JA3/JA3S) to improve network threat detection and telemetry correlation across platforms.

Maintenance Posture

• Upstream salesforce/ja3 is archived and inactive.
• This fork tracks and merges open upstream PRs directly onto master.
• Fork topics and docs are maintained for discoverability and handoff.

Merged PRs (Current Run)

• #72 nginx module support - merged with conflict resolution (prefer PR changes).
• #74 JA3S patch - merged with conflict resolution (prefer PR changes).
• #76 README update - clean merge.
• #82 C# JA3 reference - clean merge.
• #96 InQuest addition - merged with conflict resolution (prefer PR changes).
• #102 Rama proxy implementation listing - clean merge.

Unresolved Risks

• No CI-based regression checks for Python and Zeek scripts.
• Archived upstream means long-term ownership and review policy must be fork-driven.
• External implementation links in README may drift over time.

Setup

1. git clone https://github.com/friuns2/ja3.git
2. cd ja3/python && python3 ja3.py --help
3. Integrate scripts under zeek/ in your local Zeek deployment.

Next Maintenance Actions

1. Add lightweight script validation for Python tools.
2. Define fork-level review and merge policy.
3. Run periodic link integrity checks for README implementation list.

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