[tor-dev] GSoC project idea: pluggable transport that hides data in TCP SEQ numbers / UDP SRC ports
Jacek Wielemborek
d33tah at gmail.com
Tue Jan 7 14:41:02 UTC 2014
Hi,
I recently had an opportunity to watch David Fifield's lightning talk on
pluggable transports that he gave on 30C3. I find the topic fascinating and I'm
considering an application to your project for the upcoming Google Summer of
Code.
My idea is a bit complicated - I'd like to create a pluggable transport that
hides data in TCP sequence number gaps or UDP source port numbers. I don't yet
have all details thought over, but the way I imagine it right now, the user
would have to establish a TCP or UDP connection to the relay. The connection
could be completely bogus, though it'd be useful if a lot of data was sent
over it. After connecting, the client sends to the server a message with a
random RSA key steganographically hidden in the TCP sequence numbers. If the
server replies the same way with an RSA-encrypted AES key, the rest of the
hidden transmission goes encrypted with it. Since the SEQ number gaps are
meant to be random anyway, I believe that this could be very hard to detect.
Obviously, this is a very difficult project. I'd like to point out that I
already have some experience in both GSoC (worked for Nmap Project last
summer, David Fifield was my mentor) and C programming. I imagine that I'd need
to create some kernel-to-userspace interface that would let me do the packet
manipulation - I'd probably start my research by looking at how OpenVPN
implements this kind of stuff as it supports all major platforms.
The main question is - would you be interested in mentoring such a project
during the upcoming summer?
Yours,
Jacek Wielemborek
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