An Enlarging-the-Capacity Packet Sorting Covert Channel

Abstract

The construction method of the covert channel has always been a topic of research and exploration in the field of information security, and the use of IP data packets for covert channel construction is also an important method. Based on the above content, this paper proposes an enlarging-the-capacity packet sorting covert channel. We establish enlarging-the-capacity packet sorting covert channel model and derive the functional relationship between the total number of covert information transmitted and the number of ports. This method can send more secret information when the network status is not ideal. The simulation results show that the covert channel of the extended packet sorting has high performance in different packet loss rates and delays, and is superior to other IP covert channel.

Keywords

• Information security
• information hiding
• inter-packet interval covert channel
• packet sorting covert channel