244 results about "Covert communication" patented technology

The present invention is directed toward systems for conducting laser range and enabling optical communication between a plurality of entities and to the application of such systems in a secure covert combat identification system. In one embodiment, the present invention uses a novel laser system that generates high pulse rates, as required for optical communications, while concurrently generating sufficiently high power levels, as required by laser range finding operations. One application of the present invention is in enabling secure covert communications between a plurality of parties. Another application of the present invention is in tracking and identifying the movement of objects.

Improved apparatus and methods for utilizing holographic waveforms for a variety of purposes including communication, ranging, and detection. In one exemplary embodiment, the holographic waveforms are transmitted over an RF bearer medium to provide, inter alia, highly covert communications, radar systems, and microwave data links. The bearer (i.e., carrier) is optionally frequency-hopped, and various pulse modulation techniques applied in order to further increase communications efficiency and covertness. Methods of providing multiple access including multiple data “pages”, and high bandwidth data transmission, are also disclosed. Improved apparatus utilizing these features; e.g., a wireless miniature covert transceiver/locator, are also disclosed.

Improved apparatus and methods for utilizing holographic waveforms for a variety of purposes including communication, ranging, and detection. In one exemplary embodiment, the holographic waveforms are transmitted over an RF bearer medium to provide, inter alia, highly covert communications, radar systems, and microwave data links. The bearer (i.e., carrier) is optionally frequency-hopped, and various pulse modulation techniques (including variation of the phase-coding clock epoch) applied in order to further increase communications efficiency and covertness. Methods of providing multiple access and high bandwidth data transmission are also disclosed. Improved apparatus utilizing these features; e.g., a wireless miniature covert transceiver/locator, are also disclosed.

A method for a covert communication system comprising a pair of flash memory devices having encrypted boot instructions and communication software thereon whereby the flash memory devices once plugged into a computer's USB ports and the computer is powered on, the flash memory boot load tests for the presence of a flash memory device dongle having an encrypted key that that once validated starts the encrypted communication software designed to create, edit, send and receive a report comprising data files forming a data package, which can only be transmitted by restarting the computer.

According to quantum steganography, the classical steganography and quantum secure communication are combined together, and the quantum steganography is popularized in the field of quanta. The quantum steganography aims to realize secret transmission of classified information by utilizing a quantum hidden channel. The invention provides a quantum steganography protocol based on gigahertz (GHZ) state dense coding and entanglement exchange. A hyper-quantum channel of the protocol is formed by establishing the hidden channel on a quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) protocol. The classified information is transmitted by combining the GHZ state dense coding and GHZ state entanglement exchange based on the original QSDC. The capacity of the hyper-quantum channel of the protocol reaches 6-bit per round in covert communication. In addition, the protocol has high imperceptibility and high safety.

A method and system are described for operating a source communication device. The source communication device receives a first request from a user through a user interface requesting a first communication session with a target communication device. The source communication device transfers a first signal to a network requesting the first communication session with the target communication device, wherein the target communication device provides an overt communication alert for the first communication session. The source communication device receives a second request from the user requesting a second communication session requesting that the target communication device provide a covert communication alert for the second communication session. The source communication device transfers a second signal to the network requesting the second communication session with the target communication device and indicating the request for the covert communication alert, wherein the target communication device provides the covert communication alert for the second communication session.

The invention relates to a data covert transmission method based on a block chain network, and belongs to the technical field of data covert transmission. According to the method, a public key servingas a certificate of covert communication is exchanged through an out-of-chain key exchange stage; then constructing a special transaction which contains a message encrypted by a sender private key and can leak signature information of the sender private key and is generated by using a Kleptography technology through a covert data construction stage; then, the special transaction is propagated through an in-chain data transmission stage; and finally, reading and detecting each block chain transaction propagated in the block chain network one by one by a receiver in a hidden data extraction stage, and if the signature data in the transaction can extract a private key by using a Kleptograpy technology, indicating that the transaction is a special transaction carrying encrypted data. And thereceiver decrypts the original text by using the extracted private key. Compared with the prior art, the method has the characteristic of high concealment, and an enemy cannot identify a concealed channel according to account characteristics.

The invention discloses a transmitting/receiving method of covert communication. The method conceals important information waiting convey into a carrier in computer network environment, and important information is unware. When a transmitter transmits network date, a secret information is random embedded into a check field of network protocol date unit (TCP section or UDP) header, and date field is corrected for ensuring check sum right after the secret information is embedded; a receiver extracts the secret information after receiving network protocol date unit from network. The method has better confidentiality and anti-attack by using check and covert information of protocol date unit, and is safely and reliable. The method is especially suitable for convert communication of important information with less date quantity.

Disclosed are communication apparatus, a SATA communication device, a system, an enhanced port multiplier and a method for, among other things, establishing a covert communication channel in a protocol-compliant link. In one embodiment, a communication apparatus includes a link interface and a supplemental message interface. The link interface is configured to communicatively couple the communication apparatus to the link for accessing a data stream passing through the link in accordance with a standardized protocol. The supplemental message interface is configured to exchange a supplemental message within the data stream to establish a covert communication channel in the link. The supplemental message supplements the standardized protocol without violating the protocol.

The invention discloses a covert communication method under a cloud computing environment. The method comprises the following steps: 1) a sender and a receiver agree on a coding and decoding method of confidential information, wherein the coding and decoding method means that the confidential information is coded into interval time in a normal data transmission; 2) the sender establishes a annular shared memory data structure and sends an authorization reference to the receiver, and the sender and the receiver load an annular shared memory control driver as a form of a kernel module to a client virtual machine core; 3) the receiver maps the shared memory to memory address space of the sender; 4) the sender and the receiver write and read normal data containing the confidential information in and from the shared memory as a mode of a producer /a consumer; 5) the receiver acquires an interval time sequence which represents the confidential information, decodes the interval time sequence and turns the interval time sequence into the confidential information; 6) the receiver removes the shared memory mapping, and the receiver recovers the authorization reference. By using the method of the invention, current integrity and safety mechanism of the virtual machine system can be broken through and covert information transmissions between the virtual machines can be realized.

The invention provides a self-adaption covert communication method based on satellite channel coding, and directing at different channel encoding algorithms of block codes, RS codes, convolutional codes, serial concatenated code and the like, provides a capacity self-adaption method for secrete information embedding; further provides a channel encoding information embedding and extracting algorithm based on m sequences. By the utilization of the self-adaption covert communication method, the capacity of covert channels can be determined in a self-adaption mode according to different used channel encoding algorithms and different used communication environments; normal use of carriers containing secretes is not influenced, and main steganalysis attacks such as chi-square analysis attacks and RS analysis attacks can be resisted; under the condition that the satellite channel bit error rate is 10-3-10-5, quasi error-free transmission of secrete information can be realized.

The invention provides an adaptive spatial steganographic method based on adjacent pixel difference. The method comprises the following two steps: embedding secret information and extracting the secret information. The method takes three continuous adjacent pixels in an image as an embedding unit and reaches the goal of hiding information by changing the value of the middle pixel in each unit. During information embedding, a steganographic algorithm always mains the size relationship of each pixel in the embedding unit, and adaptively adjusts the capacity of embedding information through a parameter according to the content of the image. Experiments show that the adaptive spatial steganographic method has higher safety and adaptive ability compared with the prior steganographic method based on pixel difference. Therefore, the adaptive spatial steganographic method has great practical significance to application fields such as covert communication and the like.

The invention discloses an adaptive steganography algorithm based on a binary image. The adaptive steganography algorithm based on the binary image comprises the following steps: calculating perturbation of a carrier image according to image texture features, dividing the carrier image into blocks, scrambling image blocks, encrypting secret information, performing STC encoding embedding, reverselyscrambling the encrypted image blocks, and restoring the encrypted image to obtain the encrypted image having the complete texture and the embedded secret information. According to the invention, a novel carrier scrambling algorithm having high security performance and capable of effectively resisting exhaustion cracking is used; through combination of a high-detection resistance measurement method and STC encoding, a designed binary image information hiding method has very high security performance and detection resistance and plays a very important role in secure covert communication.

The present disclosure relates to a generally-applicable measurement technique based on coherent quantum enhancement effects and provides embodiments with nonlinear optics. The technique utilizes parametric nonlinear processes where the information-carrying electromagnetic quanta in a number of electromagnetic modes are converted phase coherently to signature quanta in a single mode or a few modes. The phase coherence means that while the quanta before conversion may have unequal or uncertain phase values across the modes, the signature quanta converted from those different modes have the (near) uniform phase. This can lead to significant increase in the signal to noise ratio in detecting weak signal buried in strong background noise. Applications can be found in remote sensing, ranging, biological imaging, field imaging, target detection and identification, covert communications, and other fields that can benefit from improved signal to noise ratios by using the phase coherent effect.

An FTP (File Transfer Protocol) command-sequence-coding network covert channel (FTP-NCC) is a covert communication mode that a transmitting end embeds covert information into a normal FTP application by a certain coding mode. The invention discloses a network covert channel detecting method for the FTP command sequence coding on the basis of a Markov model. The network covert channel detecting method comprises two steps of training and detection, wherein the training step is used for acquiring the Markov model of a normal FTP communication command data stream; the detection step is used for performing FTP-NCC detection by using a maximum posterior probability method according to the model obtained by the training step. The method can realize reliable detection for the FTP-NCC.

Improved apparatus and methods for utilizing holographic waveforms for a variety of purposes including communication, ranging, and detection. In one exemplary embodiment, the holographic waveforms are transmitted over an RF bearer medium to provide, inter alia, highly covert communications, radar systems, and microwave data links. The bearer (i.e., carrier) is optionally frequency-hopped, and various pulse modulation techniques applied in order to further increase communications efficiency and covertness. Methods of providing multiple access and high bandwidth data transmission are also disclosed. Improved apparatus utilizing these features; e.g., a wireless miniature covert transceiver/locator, are also disclosed.

The invention discloses a counterfeit TCP covert communication method based on an SYN-ACK dual-server rebound pattern. A covert information sending end is in communication with a covert information receiving end through a rebound server A or a rebound server B. A three-way handshake principle of connection is set up through a TCP, and covert information is embedded into a sequence number domain of the TCP and an acknowledgement number domain through a counterfeit source IP address and sent to a target end through rebound of the rebound server A. Meanwhile, the covert information feeds information back to the covert information sending end according to the modification operation of a sequence number and the modification operation of an acknowledge number and through the rebound server B, and the loss detection of the target end and the retransmission timeout of the target end are achieved.

Improved apparatus and methods for utilizing holographic waveforms for a variety of purposes including communication, ranging, and detection. In one exemplary embodiment, the holographic waveforms are transmitted over an RF bearer medium to provide, inter alia, highly covert communications, ranging, radar systems, and microwave data links. The bearer (i.e., carrier) is optionally frequency-hopped, and various pulse modulation techniques applied in order to further increase communications efficiency and covertness. Methods and apparatus for ranging (as well as determining relative velocity and acceleration) using inherent characteristics of the holographic waveforms are also disclosed.

The quantum steganography aims to realize covert communication of classified information through a quantum hidden channel. The quantum steganography has important applications in multiple aspects, such as covert communication and quantum identity authentication. The invention provides a quantum steganography protocol based on quantum electrodynamics (QED). The quantum steganography protocol is not influenced by cavity leakage and thermal cavity field. The classified information is secretly transmitted through the entanglement exchange between a GHZ state and a Bell state and Hadamard operation in the cavity QED. When the quantum steganography decodes the 2-bit classified information, only local independent measurement is required to be performed; and moreover, the capacity of the hidden channel can be improved to 4 bits.

The invention discloses a method for hiding Chebyshev neural network chaotic digital watermark information. The method comprises the following steps: utilizing a neural network to generate a chaotic sequence; carrying out XOR encryption on digital image secret information needing to be hidden to generate chaotic digital watermark; embedding the digital watermark into a carrier image; under the condition of basically not changing the external character and the use value of the carrier image, ensuring that the sense organs of people can not sense the existence of hardly-sensing digital watermark on the appearance of a stego-image, thereby escaping the attention and attacks of illegal users to achieve the covert transfer of secret information as well as achieve the purpose of covert communication. The invention can be widely used in covert communication, data non-repudiation, digital copyright protection, antifalsification and data integrity.

The invention discloses a covert communication system based on random noise modulation. At a transmitter, host data is taken as a seed of a Gaussian noise generator, a correlation coefficient of jointnormal distribution noise is modulated by a covert bit, and the joint normal distribution noise carrying the covert bit is linearly overlapped with output of a host transmitter digital modulator; andat a receiver, Gaussian noise the same as the transmitter is generated by taking the host data as the seed, then the Gaussian noise and the estimation of the joint normal distribution noise are correlated, and the covert bit can be restored through hard decision, so the covert transmission of the information is realized. The system has relatively high covert performance.

The invention discloses a high-capacity digital watermarking method combining multi-scale characteristics and a Chinese remainder theorem, which is a high-capacity digital watermarking method used for covert communication and digital images. The method is used for determining positions for embedding and extracting watermarks by using multi-scale characteristic points with multiple-invariance, and embedding binary watermark images in a non-subsampled profile wave domain by using the Chinese remainder theorem. Before embedding, the watermark images are adjusted correspondingly according to an embedding region to ensure that watermark signals are adaptive to the embedding region. During extracting, a region containing watermarks is positioned by using a same method first, and the watermarks are extracted in the non-subsampled profile wave domain according to the Chinese remainder theorem. In the method, while high-capacity watermark signals are embedded, images containing the watermarks can obtain very high quality; and the extracted watermarks can resist conventional image processing operations and geometric transformations such as rotation, zooming, translation and the like, and the geometric transformations of the extracted watermarks and images are kept consistent for protecting the copyrights of the convert communication and the digital images.

The invention pertains to the field of network communication security, which particularly relates to a remote control method and remote control system. The invention adds modules into a service end and a control end; the service end is arranged in a computer to be controlled and initiatively connected with the control end; improvement is carried out according to the mechanism of firewall or intrusion detection systems; the firewall or the intrusion detection systems are penetrated initiatively, thus easily traversing interception and realizing the purpose of covert communication.

The invention relates to a burst hybrid spread spectrum underwater sound covert communication method. The method is characterized by comprising the steps that step 1, information to be sent is divided into three groups, BPSK spread-spectrum modulation, CSK spread-spectrum modulation and MFSK spread-spectrum modulation are conducted on the three groups of information respectively, and three signals are mixed and modulated on frequency orthogonal carrier waves; step 2, the mixed and modulated signals are randomly sent in a pulsing mode; step 3, the signals are captured and tracked by a receiving end through a time-frequency two-dimensional search algorithm; step 4, the synchronized signals are demodulated, parallel-serial conversion is conducted on demodulated data, and therefore the sent information is obtained.