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Re:Why Not Use Port Knocking? (2012) by srisa on Thursday October 03, 2013 @01:27AM (#6487355)
Maximum packet maths came from the wikipedia entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_knocking . First two paragraphs under the "Benefits" section.
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Re:Why Not Use Port Knocking? (2012) by thomaslangston on Friday October 04, 2013 @02:27PM (#6497057)
I see.

You wrote:

"That equates to a maximum of 655363 packets in order to obtain and detect a single successful opening."

They wrote:

"That equates to a maximum of 65536 ^ 3 packets in order to obtain and detect a single successful opening."

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