TY - JOUR AU - Rowland, Craig H. PY - 1997/05/05 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Covert channels in the TCP/IP protocol suite JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 2 IS - 5 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v2i5.528 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/528 SP - AB - The TCP/IP protocol suite has a number of weaknesses that allow an attacker to leverage techniques in the form of covert channels to surreptitiously pass data in otherwise benign packets. This paper attempts to illustrate these weaknesses in both theoretical and practical examples. ER -