Re: Anti-spyware at the Gateway
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Re: Anti-spyware at the Gateway

From: Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org>
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 13:51:21 CET

Sebastian Gottschalk <seppi@seppig.de> wrote:
> >> Using public key cryptography one can create a tunnel
> >> that provably can't be differed from a normal session ID transfer.
> > And knowing how it is done means being able to detect.
> Assuming the session ID transfer is a fully normal and trusted activtiy
> (f.e. logging in at nytimes.com and reading some articles)and the
> session ID is a pseudorandom value, you can create a covert channel with
> bandwidth efficiency 1/n that is as hard to detect as it is to break
> either a chosen n-bit symmetric cipher or RSA of any length.

Assuming you know all this and all the keys, you can detect.

Yours,
VB.

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