Re: new tool: openportd

2006-10-22 Thread Lars Hansson
On Sunday 22 October 2006 22:41, you wrote: > this isn't correct. Every service had some security problems in the > past. Imagin that your service X is vulnerable (only since a few h > by a zero day exploit or so) and someone tries to exploit it at 2:00 in > the morning. Good thing there cant be an

Re: new tool: openportd

2006-10-22 Thread Jan Stary
> It is like a port knocking service but a little bit different: > > Normaly a port knocking service uses TCP/UDP, but openportd > uses ICMP echo response packets because they are not so easy > to send like echo requests or TCP/UDP port tests (kiddies could > simply use ping or nmap for this job).

Re: new tool: openportd

2006-10-22 Thread Nick Holland
Steffen Wendzel wrote: > On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:42:18 +0200 "Inigo T. A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > : If you have a security problem with a service, the only "more secure" > : action is to fix it, don't to open it eventually. > : > > this isn't correct. Every service had some security prob

Re: new tool: openportd

2006-10-22 Thread ropers
On 22/10/06, Steffen Wendzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:42:18 +0200 "Inigo T. A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : El dom, 22-10-2006 a las 12:40 +0200, Steffen Wendzel escribis: : > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:57:39 -0400 "Nick Guenther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : > : : > : So

Re: new tool: openportd

2006-10-22 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Hi, On Oct 22, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Steffen Wendzel wrote: this isn't correct. Every service had some security problems in the past. Imagin that your service X is vulnerable (only since a few h by a zero day exploit or so) and someone tries to exploit it at 2:00 in the morning. but if you run

Re: new tool: openportd

2006-10-22 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 04:41:17PM +0200, Steffen Wendzel wrote: > > this isn't correct. Every service had some security problems in the > past. Imagin that your service X is vulnerable (only since a few h > by a zero day exploit or so) and someone tries to exploit it at 2:00 in > the morning. >

Re: new tool: openportd

2006-10-22 Thread Steffen Wendzel
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:42:18 +0200 "Inigo T. A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : El dom, 22-10-2006 a las 12:40 +0200, Steffen Wendzel escribis: : > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:57:39 -0400 "Nick Guenther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : > : : > : So this is like an insecure version of SSH? : > : > it h

Re: new tool: openportd

2006-10-22 Thread Inigo T. A.
El dom, 22-10-2006 a las 12:40 +0200, Steffen Wendzel escribis: > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:57:39 -0400 "Nick Guenther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > : So this is like an insecure version of SSH? > > it has nothing todo with SSH. And of course it isn't very secure > BUT it adds security where no

Re: new tool: openportd

2006-10-22 Thread Clint M. Sand
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 03:55:39AM -0700, Kian Mohageri wrote: > On 10/22/06, Steffen Wendzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > You normaly have different open ports > > > > pf(4) makes this a minor issue. No offense, but what you have there (in the > example specifically) is no better tha

Re: new tool: openportd

2006-10-22 Thread Kian Mohageri
On 10/22/06, Steffen Wendzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You normaly have different open ports pf(4) makes this a minor issue. No offense, but what you have there (in the example specifically) is no better than a "limited" (if you consider ability to reboot or kill ssh "limited") version o

Re: new tool: openportd

2006-10-22 Thread Steffen Wendzel
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:57:39 -0400 "Nick Guenther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : On 10/21/06, Steffen Wendzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > hi, : > : > I wrote a new tool I call OpenPortd for my linux distribution : > but since I my linux distribution is still under development : > and I want to r

Re: new tool: openportd

2006-10-22 Thread Antti Harri
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Nick Guenther wrote: On 10/21/06, Steffen Wendzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 40tg340503n5 pf/iptables (load some other rules or whatever) So this is like an insecure version of SSH? If you configure it to behave like that, probably. But if you configure it to open a po

Re: new tool: openportd

2006-10-21 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/21/06, Steffen Wendzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, I wrote a new tool I call OpenPortd for my linux distribution but since I my linux distribution is still under development and I want to release the tool, I wrote an OpenBSD version too, you maybe like it. [...] You can define keys and