TY - GEN
T1 - Building a Covert Timing Channel over VoIP via Packet Length
AU - Zhang, Zhibin
AU - Zhang, Xiaosong
AU - Xue, Yuan
AU - Li, Yuanzhang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - With the rapid development of the Mobile Internet, the application of instant messaging technology has become increasingly abundant, among which Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has played an important role. However, in the VoIP-based instant messaging scene, there is a risk of illegal eavesdropping by a third party. For this problem, we consider building a covert timing channel (CTC) to hide user messages and improve the security of instant messaging. At present, the existing methods of building covert timing channels (CTCs) are mainly applied to traditional Ethernet, and there is a lack of relevant methods for mobile networks, especially VoIP networks. In order to improve the transmission capacity of the CTC and improve the transmission security of user information, the research of this article focus on the method of building covert timing channel over VoIP according to the characteristics of packet length. And a prototype is established based on Linphone, which is an open-source VoIP application. Through reality transmission tests, covert messages are delivered effectively, which proves that the CTC based on packet length are feasible.
AB - With the rapid development of the Mobile Internet, the application of instant messaging technology has become increasingly abundant, among which Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has played an important role. However, in the VoIP-based instant messaging scene, there is a risk of illegal eavesdropping by a third party. For this problem, we consider building a covert timing channel (CTC) to hide user messages and improve the security of instant messaging. At present, the existing methods of building covert timing channels (CTCs) are mainly applied to traditional Ethernet, and there is a lack of relevant methods for mobile networks, especially VoIP networks. In order to improve the transmission capacity of the CTC and improve the transmission security of user information, the research of this article focus on the method of building covert timing channel over VoIP according to the characteristics of packet length. And a prototype is established based on Linphone, which is an open-source VoIP application. Through reality transmission tests, covert messages are delivered effectively, which proves that the CTC based on packet length are feasible.
KW - Covert timing channel
KW - Packet length
KW - VoIP
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85119338511
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-16-7476-1_8
DO - 10.1007/978-981-16-7476-1_8
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85119338511
SN - 9789811674754
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 81
EP - 88
BT - Data Mining and Big Data - 6th International Conference, DMBD 2021, Proceedings
A2 - Tan, Ying
A2 - Shi, Yuhui
A2 - Zomaya, Albert
A2 - Yan, Hongyang
A2 - Cai, Jun
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 6th International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data, DMBD 2021
Y2 - 20 October 2021 through 22 October 2021
ER -