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Re:Port knocking by heavenlyblue on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:42AM (#23189868)
Semantics of this is wildly different.

You may accidentally enable the directory listing.

While you may say that certain methods of withholding the information are isomorphic at certain conditions it doesn’t mean that they are semantically equivalent.

Re:Port knocking by hunter2_ on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:48AM (#23192110)
I admit that my example is flawed for a few reasons and autoindex is another in that list. While obscurity and security are not identical by any means, and therefore not semantically equivalent in general, I'm just pointing out how the "something you know" factor inherently utilizes what common ground they do share, whether you call it a secret, a key, a password, a URL with a long random portion.