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Conference Papers Year : 2010

Covert channel detection using Information Theory

Abstract

This paper presents an information theory based detection framework for covert channels. We first show that the usual notion of interference does not characterize the notion of deliberate information flow of covert channels. We then show that even an enhanced notion of “iterated multivalued interference” can not capture flows with capacity lower than one bit of information per channel use. We then characterize and compute the capacity of covert channels that use control flows for a class of systems.
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inria-00539634 , version 1 (24-11-2010)

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Loïc Hélouët, Aline Roumy. Covert channel detection using Information Theory. SecCo 2010 8th International Workshop on Security Issues in Concurrency, Aug 2010, Paris, France. ⟨inria-00539634⟩
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