AIPISteg: An active IP identification based steganographic method

IP identification (IPID) is an IP header field which is designed to identify a packet in a communication session. The main purpose of IPID is to recover from IP fragmentation. To the best of our knowledge, most existing IPID based information hiding methods assume that the IPID number is a pseudo ra...

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Main Authors: Abdullaziz, O., Goh, V., Ling, Huo Chong, Wong, K.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Academic Press 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16320
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-163202017-09-13T15:03:21Z AIPISteg: An active IP identification based steganographic method Abdullaziz, O. Goh, V. Ling, Huo Chong Wong, K. IP identification (IPID) is an IP header field which is designed to identify a packet in a communication session. The main purpose of IPID is to recover from IP fragmentation. To the best of our knowledge, most existing IPID based information hiding methods assume that the IPID number is a pseudo random number, which is found to be false. In this paper, we propose a steganographic method by exploiting the IPID field while considering the information from the user data field. First, we analyze the IPID distribution of various operating systems. Subsequently, we put forward a simple data embedding method, which is then refined to mimic the ordinary IPID traffic. Experiments are carried out and the results empirically prove that the proposed method is of high undetectability as compared to the existing IPID based steganographic methods. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16320 10.1016/j.jnca.2015.10.019 Academic Press restricted
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description IP identification (IPID) is an IP header field which is designed to identify a packet in a communication session. The main purpose of IPID is to recover from IP fragmentation. To the best of our knowledge, most existing IPID based information hiding methods assume that the IPID number is a pseudo random number, which is found to be false. In this paper, we propose a steganographic method by exploiting the IPID field while considering the information from the user data field. First, we analyze the IPID distribution of various operating systems. Subsequently, we put forward a simple data embedding method, which is then refined to mimic the ordinary IPID traffic. Experiments are carried out and the results empirically prove that the proposed method is of high undetectability as compared to the existing IPID based steganographic methods.
format Journal Article
author Abdullaziz, O.
Goh, V.
Ling, Huo Chong
Wong, K.
spellingShingle Abdullaziz, O.
Goh, V.
Ling, Huo Chong
Wong, K.
AIPISteg: An active IP identification based steganographic method
author_facet Abdullaziz, O.
Goh, V.
Ling, Huo Chong
Wong, K.
author_sort Abdullaziz, O.
title AIPISteg: An active IP identification based steganographic method
title_short AIPISteg: An active IP identification based steganographic method
title_full AIPISteg: An active IP identification based steganographic method
title_fullStr AIPISteg: An active IP identification based steganographic method
title_full_unstemmed AIPISteg: An active IP identification based steganographic method
title_sort aipisteg: an active ip identification based steganographic method
publisher Academic Press
publishDate 2016
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16320
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