[aklug] Re: Port Knocking

Damien Hull said, on 11/07/2010 02:33 PM:
> Is anyone here a fan of port knocking?
>
> I heard good and bad things about it. Last thing I heard was that it
> wasn't as secure as people were making it out to be.

I haven't used it either, but off of the top of my head ...

If someone's sniffing the traffic, port knocking wouldn't be much
additional help, because they could see your knock pattern.

It would keep the wider Internet from being able to hammer at a given
port, though.

Royce
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Received on Sun Nov 7 15:50:28 2010