[clug] shimmer

Sam Couter sam at couter.id.au
Wed Jul 9 10:26:30 GMT 2008


Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net> wrote:
> We were talking about protecting ssh servers.
>
> Does anyone use shimmer?  It looks like an interesting idea.
> http://shimmer.sourceforge.net/

Interesting. Kinda like port knocking on steroids.

Just like port knocking, it looks like a way to make yourself vulnerable
to very easy DoS attacks.
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