[p2p-hackers] How is it possible to hide the traffic from a darknet?

[Wes Felter]

Barbara Emmert wrote:
>>Is it possible to "cloak" the traffic in known protocols like http? Or hide 
>>the traffic using another method?
> 
> 
> One method of "hiding traffic" can be found in 
> www.cs.umd.edu/projects/p5/p5.pdf
> The authors propose that every peer generates an amount of traffic as 
> random noise. An external observer will thus have difficulties in 
> discerning signal packets from noise packets.

Only terrorists generate a constant rate of random traffic. :-)

(Maybe the actual solution is to make your computer appear to be a 
worm-infected spam zombie... TCP over spam-stego over SMTP anyone?)

Wes Felter - wesley at felter.org