On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:02:50PM +0300, Nick Demou wrote:
> On 4/21/07, Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Despite being security-through-obscurity, it *is* possible to run https
> >and ssh on the same port, via a proxy:
> >    http://sourceforge.net/projects/ssh-ssl-proxy/
> 
> Nice idea. Is it easy to support sshd-httpd on the same port also?

Yes - assuming that the httpd client doesn't use pooling or the like,
which stops the client from "talking" immediately upon connection:
    http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=49025&group_id=192637
(have a quick scan through "Theory of Operation").

I did do a write-up on using it with other protocols, but I can't
locate it at the moment :-|

> >[...] at least casual
> >scanners could well see an https server instead of SSH...
> 
> The scanners I'm afraid of are those that will attempt to talk ssh to
> ports 80,443 because the cracker operating them knows that many admins
> might very well have configured an ssh there just to be able to access
> it when behind a restrictive firewall. For those scanners your proxy
> is transparent (as it should be)

Quite correct.

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