On Feb 22, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> 
> In other words, you don't need port knocking.  Just be slighly uncommon,
> and you're good to go.

Is this security through obscurity? 

Yes.

Does it work?

In combination with good practices, yes.

The same way that Linux and other *nix based OSes are smaller targets and in 
turn, not as inviting. There are a LOT of targets out there on port 22, and if 
you know how to change the port sshd listens to, you probably know how to make 
sshd more secure as well. 

Russell Johnson
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