Title
Traceroute based IP channel for sending hidden short messages
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11908739_30
IWSEC
Keywords
Field
DocType
novel ip channel,ip packet,proposed secret ip channel,hidden message,entire message,encrypted communication channel,hidden short message,ip header record route,traditional multimedia steganography,secret message,statistical test,communication channels,steganalysis,covert channel,traceroute
Steganography,Internet Protocol,Computer science,Computer security,traceroute,Network packet,Computer network,Encryption,IP header,Steganalysis,Message passing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4266
0302-9743
3-540-47699-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.66
13
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zouheir Trabelsi113627.78
Hesham El-Sayed29919.59
Lilia Frikha3141.29
Tamer Rabie49512.98