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RE: idea


From: D B <geggam692000 () yahoo com>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:20:26 -0700 (PDT)

excuse the top post ...yahoo isnt very friendly

ok ill try to answer this..... 

i am by no means a guru of ip protocols but have
agured this with a few people and decided it will work

chunk of data ..... encrypted ..... sliced into random
chunks ....sent to random  ports in a random order
...add some noise generated to simulate data transfer
that is actually transferred but dropped to /dev/null
( that was added after a discussion )

 with the initial connection being ssl the two clients
agree on ports and the order of real data to be sent
that is then followed with a possibility of someone
sniffing ...IF they break the ssl they then have to
reassemble the data in the proper sequence dismissing
all the random noise

what the port hopping tries to achieve is making it
even more difficult to sniff because one cant just
sniff a certain port.... with a random range u have to
suck in garbage data and this increases the time it
takes to reassemble if it is even possible

that is the base idea ...but i feel that by rolling
the ports we would achieve something similar to the
freq hopping and yes it does create complexity ...but
then isnt all security just a level of complexity
added to something simple ?



if it doesnt work at least i learn to code C++ by
trying to make it 

D B 

"my tore up"



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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:31:05 +0200 (CEST)
From: Philippe Biondi <biondi () cartel-securite fr>
To: Steven Fruchter <steven_fruchter () hotmail com>
Cc: "'John Sage'" <jsage () finchhaven com>, 
<full-disclosure () lists netsys com>
Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] idea


What is the added security value of this ??
Sounds more like "security through complexity" to me.
An IP flow does not have the properties that make FHSS
have and added
value to communications over radio frequencies.


On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Steven Fruchter wrote:

That sounds good and is very very similar to FHSS
(Frequency Hoping
Spread Spectrum) for wireless communication
technologies.

-Steven Fruchter

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Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] idea


Too late!

On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:39:07PM -0700, D B
wrote:
correct ....

with an encryption layer that obscures the data
so the
next "freq" isnt tattletailed thus making it
hard to
know which packets are part of the actual data
and
which are controlling before it hops

and just for the record .... if this idea is
original
it will be opensource licensed

i will now move this topic off this list

thank u all

D B

"my tore up"

Thanks indeed for posting your interesting ideas,
but I've
just now beaten you to it, and if you *do* write
such a
program, my army of underworked, avaricious
lawyers will sue
the cr*p out of you, and you'll be working for me
for the
rest of your life.

Not a happy prospect, I can assure you.

But all the same, thanks again...


- John
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