On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 02:50, AdamVazquez wrote: > Hi there. Two points re: port knocking. > > If you have a mobile AP or Wifi point of interest, it makes for a neat > way not to advertise until your resource is needed. Great if you have a > iPod and/or PC mp3 player and continually want to vary your collection > for example.
It's not "neat", it's irrelevant. Authentication is Authentication. You either make certain resources available anonymously, or you don't. If you don't, then even "port knocking" is just a delivery mechanism (vector) for username/password, public key, whatever. And an unreliable one at that. Possession of an iPod and varied collection is also irrelevant. > 2nd is that aren,t you creating a hidden transmiiter problem if you have > a point of interest with low range and you start up in a environment > with one or more APs with greater RF footprints. OUCH if someone is > streaming Shoutcast or something like that. Again, irrelevant. Port knocking does not change your "RF footprint", nor can it in any way impact on 802.11 ad-hoc mode hidden node issues. Has anyone done the demographics? Perhaps the meme of port knocking is appealing to people who own or desire iPods purely on their image despite price and functionality of similar devices. And because their friends think they're cool. ;-P shine, .vortex -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
