On Jul 25, 2009, Franck Joncourt wrote: > Michael Rash wrote: > > Hi all, > > Hi,
Hi Franck - > > I would be interested to hear what you all think about a paper entitled > > "Simplified Single Packet Authorization" that was presented at the 2009 > > International Conference on Security and Management. > > > > http://webstersprodigy.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Simplified-Single-Packet-Authorization_1.4.pdf > > Presentation: > ------------ > Fwknop = SPA (harden security) + ease of use > That is a good point of view, and I do not remember I have ever read > such a thing. Yeah, maybe ease of use has been a barrier, but we can fix that. :) > Then we come back to the usal argument SPA vs port knocking. > > Ubuntu package: > -------------- > An important part of the paper is about an Ubuntu package for fwknop. > Then, I have to say I am quite disappointed to hear they have done such > work without me being able to know about it. On my side, I think I have > done what was required to inform people a package was in progress. > I only hope people have not spend their(our) free time for nothing. Agreed - I'm not sure why they did not see your Debian packages. There is a lot of material to show this through a simple search, and I've blogged about it before too: http://www.cipherdyne.org/blog/2008/08/installing-fwknop-on-debian-and-ubuntu.html One thing is certain - your Debian builds are the standard. > Ease of use > ------------ > From a Debian point of view, I think fwknop is quite easy to set up the > first time, allowing people to play with it and check if they really > want to install it and continue with GPG authentication. In a general > way, fwknop is simple to setup and easy to use. > > However a wrapper for ssh would be really nice :) I have not tried > ssh-fwknop yet. > > Are you in touch with the authors ? No, I had never heard of them or their work until a Google alert for "Single Packet Authorization" provided me with a link. I wonder if they would be willing to accept some input? --Mike > Regards, > > -- > Franck Joncourt > http://debian.org - http://smhteam.info/wiki/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fwknop-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fwknop-discuss
