By Kurt Seifried (kurt@seifried.org)

Port knocking is defined as:
In computing, port knocking is a method of externally opening ports on a firewall by generating a connection attempt on a set of prespecified closed ports. Once a correct sequence of connection attempts is received the firewall rules are dynamically modified to allow the host which sent the connection attempts to connect over specified port(s). [1]

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