Steganografia w retransmisjach

2009-05-31 00:00:00 +0100


Wojciech Mazurczyk, Miłosz Smolarczyk i Krzysztof Szczypiorski z Politechniki Warszawskiej opublikowali interesującą pracę opisującą system steganograficzny oparty o retransmisje TCP (RSTEG).

"The paper presents a new steganographic method called RSTEG (Retransmission Steganography), which is intended for a broad class of protocols that utilises retransmission mechanisms. The main innovation of RSTEG is to not acknowledge a successfully received packet in order to intentionally invoke retransmission. The retransmitted packet carries a steganogram instead of user data in the payload field. RSTEG is presented in the broad context of network steganography, and the utilisation of RSTEG for TCP (Transport Control Protocol) retransmission mechanisms is described in detail. Simulation results are also presented with the main aim to measure and compare the steganographic bandwidth of the proposed method for different TCP retransmission mechanisms as well as to determine the influence of RSTEG on the network retransmissions level."

Hiding Information in Retransmissions