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New Covert Channels in HTTP

Cryptography and Security 2007-05-23 v1 Networking and Internet Architecture

Abstract

This paper presents new methods enabling anonymous communication on the Internet. We describe a new protocol that allows us to create an anonymous overlay network by exploiting the web browsing activities of regular users. We show that the overlay network provides an anonymity set greater than the set of senders and receivers in a realistic threat model. In particular, the protocol provides unobservability in our threat model.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0404054,
  title  = {New Covert Channels in HTTP},
  author = {Matthias Bauer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0404054},
  year   = {2007}
}

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7 pages