Re: idea for improving security
Hi
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 01:07:24PM -0500, Mark Edgington wrote:
> I'm not sure whether this idea has been considered or implemented
> anywhere, but I have been thinking about it, and believe it would provide a
> fairly high-level of security for systems which only run a few public
> services. The gist of it is this:
> incorporate functionality into inetd/xinetd/rinetd which listens for a
> predefined sequence of connection attempts on certain ports. Upon noticing
> the correct sequence (as specified somewhere in the config file), it opens
> up certain ports (i.e. SSH) for a specified amount of time or for the next
> connection attempt only. The parameters which could be set in the config
> file would be:
Sadoor
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MfG/Regards, Alexander
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