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Re:Riiiiiight....
Posted by: Serge Wroclawski on August 10, 2004 06:58 PMAnother solution to what people would use port knocking for would be VPN.
Your first barrier to authentication would be VPN access to a special subnet, then SSH would be allowed from that subnet.
Port knocking is a bad idea. It's simple, replayable, and worst of all, it makes the system more vulnerable to DOSes.
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