Re: Challenge-response port knocking for TCP

2004-03-20 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:21 PM 3/19/2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: The idea of advertising opportunistic crypto presence in TCP/SYN inspired me to another one: authenticated connection handshake for TCP protocol. Scenario: Application listening on port P of server S, only for authenticated users. Unknown user sends TCP

Challenge-response port knocking for TCP

2004-03-20 Thread Thomas Shaddack
The idea of advertising opportunistic crypto presence in TCP/SYN inspired me to another one: authenticated connection handshake for TCP protocol. Scenario: Application listening on port P of server S, only for authenticated users. Unknown user sends TCP/SYN to S:P, gets back TCP/RST, with challe

Mixmaster 3.0b1 released

2004-03-20 Thread Len Sassaman
Mixmaster 3.0b1 has just been released. This release includes two year's worth of development on the Mixmaster software, numerous stability improvements, anonymity benefits, bug fixes, and feature enhancements. We would like to agressively move this out of beta into final release as quickly as poss