Information Hiding in Communication Networks

Wojciech Mazurczyk is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University, Poland. He is also a senior member of IEEE.Steffen Wendzel is Head of Secure Building Automation at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing, and Ergonomics (FKIE) in Bonn, Germany.Sebastian Zander is a Lecturer at the School of Engineering and Information Technology, Murdoch University, Australia.Amir Houmansadr is an Assistant Professor within the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Krzysztof Szczypiorski is a Professor of Telecommunications at the Institute of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology at Warsaw University of Technology, Poland.

• List of Figures xvList of Tables xxiForeword xxiiiPreface xxvAcknowledgments xxixAcronyms xxxi1 Introduction 12 Background Concepts, Definitions, and Classification 393 Network Steganography 594 Control Protocols for Reliable Network Steganography 895 Traffic Type Obfuscation 1176 Network Flow Watermarking 1397 Examples of Information Hiding Methods for Popular Internet Services 1638 Network Steganography Countermeasures 2079 Closing Remarks 243Glossary 247Index 253