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How To Implement Port Knocking to Obscure your SSH Daemon

How To Implement Port Knocking to Obscure your SSH Daemon

Introduction

Port knocking is a security concept that involves dynamically altering firewall rules to expose access to an otherwise protected service. This is done by sending a pre-configured special packet, or a pattern of packets that the port knocking software is listening for. In this series, we will discuss a variety of ways to configure port knocking to add an extra layer of security around your SSH daemon.

Tutorials in series

Tutorial

How To Use fwknop to Enable Single Packet Authentication on Ubuntu 12.04

  • January 10, 2014
  • 9 min read

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Tutorial

How To Use Port Knocking to Hide your SSH Daemon from Attackers on Ubuntu

  • January 9, 2014
  • 13 min read

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Tutorial

How To Configure Port Knocking Using Only Iptables on an Ubuntu VPS

  • January 18, 2014
  • 16 min read

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