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I had an OpenBSD firewall at the start of the century and set-up my SSH with port-knocking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_knocking

I used an skey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/KEY port sequence and had a small java app that would run upon my humble Nokia and Psion Organiser to provide the port sequence for that minute in time.

Not sure I have the code about still alas, due to that system getting lost along with others in a move a decade ago, but was simple enough to craft together and worked well. Even had a http/s tarpit, which is highly recommended educational wise to do and insightful.

Again it is security with obscurity, just a bit more obfuscation involved in this type of set-up.

Oh and dynamic DNS so home IP was known as was dynamic IP allocation via the ISP.




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