Ross Cameron wrote:
> Id rather point you're interest at SPA (Single Packet Authentication)
> from one project I've worked on we found that a determined enough
> person eventually finds the knock sequence.
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Do you have a research paper that discusses your findings?

> With SPA an encrypted payload is sent in one packet (almost impossible
> to find) to a random port (in our implimentation) and then the
> firewall rules are edited to only allow the source host access to
> whatever service.
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Is nmap able to distinguish the port you use here from other ports?

Darren

> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:42 PM, a b <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> New features...and while I've got your attention,
>>> what features do you think ipfilter needs that it
>>> does not yet have?
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>> Port knocking.  I believe IPFilter would really benefit from this feature
>> for two reasons:
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>> 1. port knocking is obviously a useful security feature to have
>> 2. it will make IPFilter competitive with iptables.
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