RT Journal Article
T1 Covert Communications through Network Configuration Messages
A1 Ríos-del-Pozo, Rubén
A1 Onieva-González, José Antonio
A1 López-Muñoz, Francisco Javier
K1 Redes de ordenadores - Medidas de seguridad
AB Covert channels are a form of hidden communication that may violate the integrity of systems. Since their birth in Multi-Level Security systems in the early 70's they have evolved considerably, such that new solutions have appeared for computer networks mainly due to vague protocols specifications. In this paper we concentrate on short-range covert channels and analyze the opportunities of concealing data in various extensively used protocols today. From this analysis we observe several features that can be effectively exploited for subliminal data transmission in the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). The result is a proof-of-concept implementation, HIDE_DHCP, which integrates three different covert channels each of which accommodate to different stealthiness and capacity requirements. Finally, we provide a theoretical and experimental analysis of this tool in terms of its reliability, capacity, and detectability.
PB Elsevier
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38872
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/38872
LA eng
NO Ruben Rios, Jose A. Onieva, Javier Lopez  Covert Communications through Network Configuration Messages  In: Computers & Security, vol. 39, Part A, pp. 34 – 46, 2013, ISSN: 0167-4048
NO Política de acceso abierto: https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/27894
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026