FOCI '14 - Counting Packets Sent Between Arbitrary Internet Hosts

Counting Packets Sent Between Arbitrary Internet Hosts

Jeffrey Knockel and Jedidiah R. Crandall, University of New Mexico

In this paper we demonstrate a side-channel technique to infer whether two machines are exchanging packets on the Internet provided that one of them is a Linux machine. For ICMP and UDP exchanges, we require that at least one machine is a Linux machine, and for TCP connections, we require that at least the server is a Linux machine. Unlike many side-channel measurement …

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