[3765] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin M Bealer)
Fri Jul 19 21:18:41 1996
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 03:08:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin M Bealer <kmb203@psu.edu>
To: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199607150832.JAA20702@snowcrash.cymru.net>
On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> A tcp packet has no magic number. You can however pass data across the top
> of TCP (and almost any data carrying interface) in concealed fashion. A
> whole variety of these problems exist at both host (eg messages by varying
> disk usage) and networking (for example perturbing the retransmit patterns
> of a connection). Both are very unreliable but an error correcting code can
> be placed over the top (eg Viterbi or Golay codes).
>
> Alan
I guess I must have been thinking of PPP. (blam)
(Actually I was thinking of it more as a feature than a problem, not that I
would have any use for invisible communiques... anyone want my root pw?...)
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