Towards adaptive covert communication system

Fedor V. Yarochkin; Shih Yao Dai; Chih Hung Lin; Yennun Huang; Sy Yen Kuo

doi:10.1109/PRDC.2008.26

Towards adaptive covert communication system

Fedor V. Yarochkin, Shih Yao Dai, Chih Hung Lin, Yennun Huang, Sy Yen Kuo^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

National Taiwan University

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Abstract

Covert channels are secret communication paths, which existance is not expected in the original system design. Covert channels can be used as legimate tools of censorship resistance, anonimity and privacy preservation to address issues with "national" firewalls, citizen profiling and other "unethical" uses of Information Technology. Current steganographic methods that implement covert channels within network traffic, are highly dependent on particular media data or network protocol to hide data. In this paper we investigate the methods and an algorithm for implementing adaptive covert communication system that works on real-world Internet, capable of using multiple application-level protocols as its communication media and can be implemented as network application, therefore requires no system modifications of communicating nodes. The key difference from previous solutions is the use of adaptive redundant mechanism, which allows real-time underlying protocol switching and adaptation to the dynamic network configuration changes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2008
Pages	153-159
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PRDC.2008.26
State	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	14th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2008 - Taipei, Taiwan Duration: 15 12 2008 → 17 12 2008

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Name	Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2008

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Conference	14th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2008
Country/Territory	Taiwan
City	Taipei
Period	15/12/08 → 17/12/08

Keywords

Covert-channels
Self-adaptation and self-organization
Steganography

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Yarochkin, F. V., Dai, S. Y., Lin, C. H., Huang, Y., & Kuo, S. Y. (2008). Towards adaptive covert communication system. In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2008 (pp. 153-159). Article 4725291 (Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2008). https://doi.org/10.1109/PRDC.2008.26

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Yarochkin, FV, Dai, SY, Lin, CH, Huang, Y & Kuo, SY 2008, Towards adaptive covert communication system. in Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2008., 4725291, Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2008, pp. 153-159, 14th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2008, Taipei, Taiwan, 15/12/08. https://doi.org/10.1109/PRDC.2008.26

Towards adaptive covert communication system. / Yarochkin, Fedor V.; Dai, Shih Yao; Lin, Chih Hung et al.
Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2008. 2008. p. 153-159 4725291 (Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2008).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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