Computer Science – Cryptography and Security
Scientific paper
2012-03-07
Computer Science
Cryptography and Security
Scientific paper
In this paper, we analyze several recent schemes for watermarking network flows that are based on splitting the flow into timing intervals. We show that this approach creates time-dependent correlations that enable an attack that combines multiple watermarked flows. Such an attack can easily be mounted in nearly all applications of network flow watermarking, both in anonymous communication and stepping stone detection. The attack can be used to detect the presence of a watermark, recover the secret parameters, and remove the watermark from a flow. The attack can be effective even if different flows are marked with different values of a watermark. We analyze the efficacy of our attack using a probabilistic model and a Markov-Modulated Poisson Process (MMPP) model of interactive traffic. We also implement our attack and test it using both synthetic and real-world traces, showing that our attack is effective with as few as 10 watermarked flows. Finally, we propose possible countermeasures to defeat the multi-flow attack.
Borisov Nikita
Houmansadr Amir
Kiyavash Negar
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