Survey and Design Approach of Protocol Steganography in IPv6
Sandip Bobade, R. M. Goudar
2013
International Journal of Computer Applications
Steganography is the process of hiding message in another cover medium such that it is difficult to detect. Cover medium is used as a carrier.this carrier can be Image,video, text or IP packet. Covert Channel is implemented in different header Fields of IPv4 header to send secrete message. A covert channel is the medium that is used to transmit the information such as message, image or file. The fields flow label, traffic class and IPV6 source address of IPV6 header are selected as covert
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... l in this project. The more security in IPV6 header steganography can be achieved by apply-ing cryptography ie Encryption. Public key algorithm i.e. RSA is selected for cryptography. Message is at first encrypted using RSA algorithm. The ciphertext is embedded in selected fields. The-ses covert channels could be used for a Exploiting the Security rules so hidden Communication can be possible.this can be used for purpose such as pinching encryption key,login information or other secrets from in a way that should not easily detectable, but it could also be used for a good reason such as secret message can be passed under the watchful eyes of passive attacker. The demonstration of covert channel increases information security. General Terms: Network Security steganography by using covert channel. A covert channel refers to the Carrier that is used to communicate the information such as a message, image, or file. A good amount of work has been done in IPv4 packet steganography. But future computer network infrastructure will use IPv6; Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is the new generation Internet protocol that is set to slowly merge with and ultimately replace IPv4. According to a recent research [1] from Ars Technica, if the world continues at its current rate of adding millions IP addresses per year for new machine that are connected to the Internet, people will exhaust the current address space allowed for by IPv4 in 7.5 years. This is the main reason behind the move forward to switch to IPv6. IPv6 allows 128 to the power of 2 addresses, which shows that the Internet Engineering Task Force.ere are different covert channel in IPv6 header fields like flow label ,traffic class, Source address field which can be used as a Carrier of data. more. Hence we will focus on IPv6 steganography.
doi:10.5120/11856-7623
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