Improved Port Knocking with Strong Authentication

It is sometimes desirable to allow access to open ports on a firewall only to authorized external users and present closed ports to all others. We examine ways to construct an authentication service to achieve this goal, and then examine one such method, “port knocking”, and its existing implementations, in detail. We improve upon these existing implementations by presenting a novel port knocking architecture that provides strong authentication while addressing the weaknesses of existing port knocking systems.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ACSAC
• Authors: Rennie deGraaf, John Aycock, Michael J. Jacobson Jr.
• Keywords: ACSAC 2005, Port, Port Knocking, Present Closed Ports, Security Privacy