SPKT: Secure Port Knock-Tunneling, an enhanced port security authentication mechanism

Author

Mehran, P. ; Reza, E.A. ; Laleh, B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Univ. of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

fYear

2012

fDate

18-20 March 2012

Firstpage

145

Lastpage

149

Abstract

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the authentication process due to the key role that it has in the network security. Port Knocking (PKn) is an authentication method in which data transmits through the closed ports. This method is prone to attacks when attackers sniff the network. This paper proposes a new method which is called “Secure Port Knock-Tunneling” to eliminate both DOS-Knocking and NATK-nocking attacks. The possibility of implementation of this method is investigated on the Mikrotik devices.

Keywords

Internet; authorisation; computer network security; protocols; DOS-knocking attack elimination; Internet security devices; NAT-knocking attack elimination; SPKT; authentication process; enhanced port security authentication mechanism; network address translate; network security policies; network security protocols; secure port knock-tunneling; Authentication; Computers; Educational institutions; Fires; Servers; Tunneling; Authentication; DOS-knocking attack; Network Access Translation; Port Knocking; Port security; Tunnelling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers & Informatics (ISCI), 2012 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Penang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1685-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCI.2012.6222683

Filename

6222683