# WHATPORT(8293)

## NAME

port 8293 — hiperscan-id — IANA-registered to Hiperscan for an "Identification Service"; the UDP side is Reserved.

Protocol: TCP  
IANA registry

## DESCRIPTION

TCP 8293 carries the registered name hiperscan-id, "Hiperscan Identification Service", registered in December 2009 by Hiperscan GmbH, a maker of handheld near-infrared spectrometers used to identify substances. UDP 8293 is marked Reserved rather than assigned. No protocol specification is published and no widely deployed software claims the port; Nmap sees it open on about 0.015% of scanned hosts. If you find it listening, the registry name almost certainly does not describe what is there.

## EXPOSURE

**Expose with care.** An unidentified listener in practice. Find the owning process before exposing it beyond a local network.

## CHECK

```sh
sudo lsof -nP -iTCP:8293 -sTCP:LISTEN
```

## SEE ALSO

- iana — [IANA Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry](https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml) (iana.org)
- source — [nmap-services — Nmap port frequency data](https://github.com/nmap/nmap/blob/master/nmap-services) (github.com)

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