Traceroute Based IP Channel for Sending Hidden Short Messages

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• 作者：Zouheir Trabelsi ; Hesham El-Sayed ; Lilia Frikha ; Tamer Rabie
• 关键词：Covert channel ; Hidden information ; IP header Record route option ; Steganalysis ; Traceroute
• 刊名：Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• 出版年：2006
• 出版时间：2006
• 年：2006
• 卷：4266
• 期：1
• 页码：421-436
• 全文大小：415 KB
• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
  Computer Communication Networks
  Software Engineering
  Data Encryption
  Database Management
  Computation by Abstract Devices
  Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1611-3349

文摘

The paper proposes a novel IP channel for sending hidden short messages, based mainly on the use of the “traceroute” command and the IP header Record route options. Instead of encrypting a hidden message or embedding it into a multimedia object, as in traditional multimedia steganography, we process the entire message and generate several IP packets with different types to carry the secret message. Thereby we foil an eavesdropper who is primarily applying statistical tests to detect encrypted communication channels. We show that our approach provides more protection against Steganalysis and sniffing attacks. A friendly graphical tool has been implemented to demonstrate the proposed secret IP channel.