Don't have to do anything too complicated. Here's the knocker code in a short Bash script, produced by GPT4: ~ % gpt4 'write a very short bash script that take

Don't have to do anything too complicated. Here's the knocker code in a short Bash script, produced by GPT4: ~ % gpt4 'write a very short bash script that takes the number stored in ~/.ssh/knock_seq, increments it by 1 and saves it to the file. It then takes the new number and concatenates it with the value stored in the file ~/.ssh/secret. It pipes the resulting string to sha1sum, spitting out binary. It then takes both the resulting sha1sum and the number used and pipes their concatenation to "nc -u $host $(cat ~/.ssh/knocking_port)". be brief' knock_seq=$(cat ~/.ssh/knock_seq) let knock_seq++ echo $knock_seq > ~/.ssh/knock_seq concat_seq_secret=$(echo -n "${knock_seq}$(cat ~/.ssh/secret)") sha1_output=$(echo -n $concat_seq_secret | sha1sum -b | awk '{print $1}') final_output="${sha1_output}${knock_seq}" host=localhost knocking_port=$(cat ~/.ssh/knocking_port) echo -n $final_output | nc -u $host $knocking_port