Eliminating steganography in internet traffic with active wardens

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2578, Issue , 2003, Pages 18-35

  Fisk, Gina ^a,b   Fisk, Mike ^a   Papadopoulos, Christos ^b   Neil, Joshua ^a,b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SEMANTICS; STEGANOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

COVERT COMMUNICATIONS; HUMAN PERCEPTION; INFORMATION HIDING; INTERNET TRAFFIC; NETWORK FIREWALLS; SIGNAL FIDELITY; STRUCTURED CARRIER; TCP/IP PROTOCOL SUITES;

COMPUTER SYSTEM FIREWALLS;

EID: 35248897534     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36415-3_2     Document Type: Article

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