Single Packet Authorization on Android
07 January, 2011
Kicking off 2011 with a bang is easy this year - Max Kastanas has ported the fwknop client to the Android mobile operating sytem. This brings Single Packet Authorization to Google's smart phones, and was accomplished using Damien Stuart's libfko implementation. All of the Android code can be found in the Cipherdyne Trac respository. A couple of screenshots of using the SPA app from an Android phone appear below - after the SPA packet is sent and verified passively by the fwknop daemon on the remote system, the fwknop Android app automatically launches Connectbot to access SSHD: