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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 10:24:46 +0200 From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@...u.net> To: Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de> 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 On 19 August 2014 21:36, Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de> wrote: > It doesn't have to work in every environment and it doesn't have to solve > all existing problems in the world. ;) > > But it enables people to protect a bit more against malicious people or > governments. > > And it is really very easy to use. It took me around half an hour to find > the places in openvpn and openssh where I had to add the setsockopt() call > and it can be used even easier with preloading libknockify.so. > > There can be found much more useless options in the kernel. At least I like > it and it fits my needs too. It's not about to add another "useless options", it's about changing the major transport protocol. You should probably join the IETF tcpm/tcpinc mailing list where TCP stealth is currently actively discussed. TCP stealth has problems and you can probably help to address them on a *technical level* if you like the mechanism. Hagen -- 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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