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SWEET: Serving the Web by Exploiting Email Tunnels
Amir Houmansadr, Wenxuan Zhou, Matthew Caesar +1
Open communication over the Internet poses a serious threat to countries with repressive regimes, leading them to develop and deploy censorship mechanisms within their networks. Un…
IP over Voice-over-IP for censorship circumvention
Amir Houmansadr, Thomas Riedl, Nikita Borisov +1
Open communication over the Internet poses a serious threat to countries with repressive regimes, leading them to develop and deploy network-based censorship mechanisms within thei…
Non-blind watermarking of network flows
Amir Houmansadr, Negar Kiyavash, Nikita Borisov
Linking network flows is an important problem in intrusion detection as well as anonymity. Passive traffic analysis can link flows but requires long periods of observation to reduc…
Multi-Flow Attacks Against Network Flow Watermarks: Analysis and Countermeasures
Negar Kiyavash, Amir Houmansadr, Nikita Borisov
In this paper, we analyze several recent schemes for watermarking network flows that are based on splitting the flow into timing intervals. We show that this approach creates time-…
BotMosaic: Collaborative Network Watermark for Botnet Detection
Amir Houmansadr, Nikita Borisov
Recent research has made great strides in the field of detecting botnets. However, botnets of all kinds continue to plague the Internet, as many ISPs and organizations do not deplo…