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The detection and elimination of covert channels are performed by a network node, known as a warden. Especially if faced with adaptive covert communication parties, a regular warden equipped with a static set of normalization rules is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Mehdi Chourib , Steffen Wendzel , Wojciech Mazurczyk

We investigate the problem of covert and secret key generation over a state-dependent discrete memoryless channel with one-way public discussion in which an adversary, the warden, may arbitrarily choose the channel state. We develop an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Matthieu Bloch

A covert communication system under block fading channels is considered where users experience uncertainty about their channel knowledge. The transmitter seeks to hide the covert communication to a private user by exploiting a legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou , Shihao Yan

Due to the vital role of security in online communications and this fact that attackers are developing their tools, modernizing the security tools is an essential. The efficiency of crypto systems has been proven after years, however one…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Mahboubeh Nazari , Sousan Tarahomi , Sobhan Aliabady

We consider the problem of covert communication over a state-dependent channel when the channel state is available either non-causally, causally, or strictly causally, either at the transmitter alone or at both transmitter and receiver.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Hassan ZivariFard , Matthieu R. Bloch , Aria Nosratinia

Covert channels is a vital setup in the analysing the strength of security in a network.Covert Channel is illegitimate channelling over the secured channel and establishes a malicious conversation.The trapdoor set in such channels…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Anjan K , Srinath N K , Jibi Abraham

Computer network is unpredictable due to information warfare and is prone to various attacks. Such attacks on network compromise the most important attribute, the privacy. Most of such attacks are devised using special communication channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Anjan K , Jibi Abraham , Mamatha Jadhav

Covert communication hides the transmission of a message from a watchful adversary while ensuring reliable information decoding at the receiver, providing enhanced security in wireless communications. In this letter, covert communication in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Khurram Shahzad , Xiangyun Zhou , Shihao Yan

In this paper, we study covert communications between {a pair of} legitimate transmitter-receiver against a watchful warden over slow fading channels. There coexist multiple friendly helper nodes who are willing to protect the covert…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Tong-Xing Zheng , Ziteng Yang , Chao Wang , Zan Li , Jinhong Yuan , Xiaohong Guan

Covert channel networks are a well-known method for circumventing the security measures organizations put in place to protect their networks from adversarial attacks. This paper introduces a novel method based on bit-rate modulation for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Simone Soderi , Rocco De Nicola

The growing complexity of cyber attacks has necessitated the evolution of firewall technologies from static models to adaptive, machine learning-driven systems. This research introduces "Dynamically Retrainable Firewalls", which respond to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Sina Ahmadi

A network covert channel is created that operates by modulating the time between web resource accesses, with an 'average web user' read-time used as a reference. While the covert channel may be classified as timing based, it does not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-09 Joshua Davis

Covert wireless communications are critical for concealing the existence of any transmission from adversarial wardens, particularly in complex environments with multiple heterogeneous detectors. This paper proposes a novel adversarial AI…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Afan Ali , Md. Jalil Piran , Huseyin Arslan

In this work, we propose a covert communication scheme where the transmitter attempts to hide its transmission to a full-duplex receiver, from a warden that is to detect this covert transmission using a radiometer. Specifically, we first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Jinsong Hu , Khurram Shahzad , Shihao Yan , Xiangyun Zhou , Feng Shu , Jun Li

Wireless short-packet communications pose challenges to the security and reliability of the transmission. Besides, the proactive warder compounds these challenges, who detects and interferes with the potential transmission. An extra jamming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Manlin Wang , Yao Yao , Bin Xia , Zhiyong Chen , Jiangzhou Wang

Secure communication over a wiretap channel is investigated, in which an active adversary modifies the state of the channel and the legitimate transmitter has the opportunity to sense and learn the adversary's actions. The adversary has the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Matthieu R. Bloch , Aylin Yener

Detecting covert channels among legitimate traffic represents a severe challenge due to the high heterogeneity of networks. Therefore, we propose an effective covert channel detection method, based on the analysis of DNS network data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Salvatore Saeli , Federica Bisio , Pierangelo Lombardo , Danilo Massa

Covert channels are stealthy communication channels that enable manifold adversary and legitimate scenarios, ranging from malware communications to the exchange of confidential information by journalists and censorship circumvention. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Steffen Wendzel , Tobias Schmidbauer , Sebastian Zillien , Jörg Keller

Covert wireless communication or low probability of detection (LPD) communication that employs the noise or jamming signals as the cover to hide user's information can prevent a warden Willie from discovering user's transmission attempts.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Zhihong Liu , Jiajia Liu , Yong Zeng , Zhuo Ma , Jianfeng Ma , Qiping Huang

Covert communication is the undetected transmission of sensitive information over a communication channel. In wireless communication systems, channel impairments such as signal fading present challenges in the effective implementation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amir Reza Ramtin , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley
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