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:
