The covert channel over HTTP protocol

Waldemar Graniszewski; Jacek Krupski; Krzysztof Szczypiorski

doi:10.1117/12.2249322

28 September 2016 The covert channel over HTTP protocol

Waldemar Graniszewski, Jacek Krupski, Krzysztof Szczypiorski

Proceedings Volume 10031, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2016; 100314Z (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2249322
Event: Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2016, 2016, Wilga, Poland

Abstract

The paper presents a new steganographic method - the covert channel is created over HTTP protocol header, i.e. trailer field. HTTP protocol is one of the most frequently used in the Internet. The popularity of the Web servers and network traffic from, and to them, is one of the requirements for undetectable message exchange. To study this kind of the information hiding technique an application in Javascript language based on the Node.js framework was written. The results of the experiment that was performed to send a message in the covert channel are also presented.

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Waldemar Graniszewski, Jacek Krupski, and Krzysztof Szczypiorski "The covert channel over HTTP protocol", Proc. SPIE 10031, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2016, 100314Z (28 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2249322

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