Title :
StegTorrent: A Steganographic Method for the P2P File Sharing Service
Author :
Kopiczko, Pawel ; Mazurczyk, Wojciech ; Szczypiorski, Krzysztof
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Telecommun., Warsaw Univ. of Technol., Warsaw, Poland
Abstract :
The paper proposes StegTorrent a new network steganographic method for the popular P2P file transfer service-BitTorrent. It is based on modifying the order of data packets in the peer-peer data exchange protocol. Unlike other existing steganographic methods that modify the packets´ order it does not require any synchronization. Experimental results acquired from prototype implementation proved that it provides high steganographic bandwidth of up to 270 b/s while introducing little transmission distortion and providing difficult detectability.
Keywords :
peer-to-peer computing; protocols; steganography; P2P file sharing service; P2P file transfer service-BitTorrent; StegTorrent; data packets; peer-peer data exchange protocol; steganographic method; Bandwidth; Delays; IP networks; Peer-to-peer computing; Protocols; Receivers; Synchronization; BitTorrent; P2P; information hiding; network steganography;
Conference_Titel :
Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0458-7
DOI :
10.1109/SPW.2013.11
