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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:20:14 +0200 From: Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de> To: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@...u.net> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, Christian Grothoff <grothoff@...tum.de>, Jacob Appelbaum <jacob@...elbaum.net>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, knock@...net.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] TCP: add option for silent port knocking with integrity protection Am 20.08.2014 11:47, schrieb Alexander Holler: > Am 20.08.2014 11:28, schrieb Hagen Paul Pfeifer: >> On 20 August 2014 11:07, Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de> wrote: >> >>> For sure it could be better, but I'm already happy with the current >>> imperfect solution which I can use now and not some perfect solution >>> which >>> might be available in some years. >> >> Alexander, to make it clear: we cannot include mechanisms which >> probably open other (security) issues. This is not how things work >> out. TCP had so many issues in the past - regarding security, >> implementation f*ups, etc. pp. It is utterly important that there is >> no problem with an extension. Please join the discussion ob tcpm if >> you will drive things forward. That's all what I can say - sorry! > > Maybe I first should send a million syn-packets to a box where I've > enabled that feature. ;) > > Anyway, I still think there should be some room for experimental > features in the kernel. It makes them more visible to possible > contributors and helps to drive further development. > > Not necessarily in my case (as most people, I can't and don't want to > participate in all parties), but ... And as I've just read the archives of tcpm, I don't think it would help. Jacob Appelbaum already expressed everything I like to use this feature for, so most of the time I just had to send a +1 to Jacobs comments, which would be somewhat annoying. ;) Regards, Alexander Holler -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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