FTP with Tcpcrypt vs. NAT
FTP with Tcpcrypt vs. NAT
Posted Aug 26, 2010 13:55 UTC (Thu) by ilmari (guest, #14175)In reply to: FTP with Tcpcrypt vs. NAT by djao
Parent article: Transport-level encryption with Tcpcrypt
Not authenticating or encrypting port numbers still doesn't help when you need to inspect and rewrite port numbers and IP addresses in the payload of the packet, as with FTP (PORT and EPRT commands), IRC (DCC connections) and a whole bunch of other protocols (see the various conntrack modules in netfilter).
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