Covert Data Storage Channel Using IP Packet Headers

A covert data channel is a communications channel that is hidden within the medium of a legitimate communications channel. Covert channels manipulate a communications medium in an unexpected or unconventional way in order to transmit information in an almost undetectable fashion. Otherwise said, a...

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Jonathan Thyer

February 7, 2008

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