Address and Port Knocking Mechanism for Concealed Authentication

Leyi Shi, Xiao Wen, Zijing Cheng, Yuwen Cui, Yi Lu
2017 Innovative Computing Information and Control Express Letters, Part B: Applications  
Authentication is a mechanism to distinguish the legitimate users from attackers who intend to access services illegally through open ports. This paper focuses on the authentication problem in network security. We firstly put up the address and port knocking (APK) authentication scheme to build a credible connection between the client and the server. Then the approach of randomly generating sequence and the sending of the knocking packets are discussed in detail. Thereafter, a matrix transpose
more » ... ultiplication algorithm is presented to identify the knocking sequence by checking the destination addresses and ports. Experiments are launched to validate the performance of our scheme. The empirical results reveal that the APK authentication scheme is efficient and feasible.
doi:10.24507/icicelb.08.03.511 fatcat:lf2qvbv5bfhypgzayuvfwxfobu