RE: Sliding/Shifting/Morphing firewalls

["Safier, Adam (GEIS)" <Adam.Safier () geis ge com>]

But what does it do for/to network support?

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cbrenton [SMTP:cbrenton () sover net]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 3:24 PM
> To:   Stout, Bill
> Cc:   Firewall-wizards
> Subject:      Re: Sliding/Shifting/Morphing firewalls
>
> On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Stout, Bill wrote:
>
> > What's the gurus opinions on firewalls which use randomly changing port
> > numbers for inbound/outbound traffic?
>
> I assume you mean using random upper port numbers for source ports instead
> of having the OS dish them out sequentially? If so it makes all forms of
> attack that rely on source port spoofing that much more difficult to
> implement.
>
> Chris
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