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Steganography in TCP/IP Networks

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Advances in Artificial Systems for Medicine and Education VI (AIMEE 2022)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies ((LNDECT,volume 159))

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Due to the large amount of data that is transmitted over computer networks, web traffic is an attractive environment for steganographic techniques. The question is, can data that is sent over the Internet be used as a medium, perhaps without the knowledge of the sender and recipient? In this work, methods of hiding and data transmission are considered, using some shortcomings of data transmission protocols of computer networks. The IP and TCP protocols, existing possibilities of embedding in the headers of data that are invisible and do not affect the transmission of packets are considered in detail. Steganographic transmission was simulated under conditions of a loaded network (packet loss), estimates of the possibility of reliable transmission of a steganographic message were obtained to detect the compromise of fields that appeared to be safe.

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Warmia and Mazury, 10-719, Olsztyn, Poland

    Oleksandr Tymchenko

  2. Department of Publishing Information Technologies, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, 79013, Ukraine

    Bohdana Havrysh

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  1. International Center of Informatics and Computer Science, Faculty of Applied Mathematics, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv, Ukraine

    Zhengbing Hu

  2. School of Computer Science, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China

    Zhiwei Ye

  3. Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

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Tymchenko, O., Havrysh, B. (2023). Steganography in TCP/IP Networks. In: Hu, Z., Ye, Z., He, M. (eds) Advances in Artificial Systems for Medicine and Education VI. AIMEE 2022. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 159. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24468-1_5

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