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Penetration Testing
an anternative to port-knoking using the OpenBSD pf only Jan 23 2006 09:44PM poplix (poplix papuasia org) (2 replies) Re: an anternative to port-knoking using the OpenBSD pf only Feb 17 2006 08:52AM gimeshell web de (1 replies) Re: an anternative to port-knoking using the OpenBSD pf only Feb 20 2006 09:58PM poplix (poplix papuasia org) (1 replies) Re: an anternative to port-knoking using the OpenBSD pf only Feb 22 2006 10:00AM Pete Herzog (lists isecom org) (1 replies) Re: an anternative to port-knoking using the OpenBSD pf only Feb 27 2006 11:09PM poplix (poplix papuasia org) (1 replies) Defining security measures (Was: an anternative to port-knoking using the OpenBSD pf only) Feb 28 2006 04:58PM Pete Herzog (lists isecom org) |
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Privacy Statement |
> Hi there,
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> I wish to propose an alternative to port knoking that uses the native
> OpenBSD's pf code only. The idea is to use the pf's passive os
> fingerprinter to authenticate initial SYN packets.
> With a tool (or kernel patch) able to rewrite packets header is possible
> to use a specific sequence of header fields as a key to validate
> packets.
This is an interesting - albeit not exactly new - idea, but it has the
very real disadvantage over port knocking that it requires priviliges
(typically root) on the connecting host.
Joachim
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