A comprehensive survey of covert communication techniques, limitations and future challenges

I Makhdoom, M Abolhasan, J Lipman - Computers & Security, 2022 - Elsevier
Data encryption aims to protect the confidentiality of data at storage, during transmission, or
while in processing. However, it is not always the optimum choice as attackers know the …

Blockchain meets covert communication: A survey

Z Chen, L Zhu, P Jiang, C Zhang, F Gao… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Covert communication enables covert information transmission in an undetectable way to
prevent the exposure of communication behaviors. Blockchain-based covert communication …

Covert channels in blockchain and blockchain based covert communication: Overview, state-of-the-art, and future directions

T Zhang, B Li, Y Zhu, T Han, Q Wu - Computer Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Traditional network covert channels have become insecure due to the continuous
improvement of traffic analysis techniques. As an emerging technology combined with …

EBDL: Effective blockchain-based covert storage channel with dynamic labels

C Zhang, L Zhu, C Xu, Z Zhang, R Lu - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Blockchain-based covert communication has opened up a new research direction for the
covert communication field. In blockchain-based storage covert communication, reliability …

Graph-Based Covert Transaction Detection and Protection in Blockchain

Z Guo, X Li, J Liu, Z Zhang, M Li, J Hu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Covert communication is an method that plays an important role in secure data transmission.
The technology embeds covert information into data and propagates it through covert …

Zephyrus: an information hiding mechanism leveraging Ethereum data fields

M Gimenez-Aguilar, JM De Fuentes… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Permanent availability makes blockchain technologies a suitable alternative for building a
covert channel. Previous works have analysed its feasibility in a particular blockchain …

A decentralized social network architecture

T Sarathchandra, D Jayawikrama - 2021 International Research …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Billions of people use social networks, and they playa significant role in people's lifestyles in
the current world. At the same time, due to globalization and other factors, the use of these …

Covert communication via blockchain: Hiding patterns and communication patterns

T Zhang, Q Wu, Q Wang, T Han, B Li, Y Zhu - Computer Standards & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Blockchain technology has demonstrated promising potential for covert communication.
Although a series of studies have investigated blockchain-based covert communication …

“Act natural!”: Exchanging Private Messages on Public Blockchains

T Tiemann, S Berndt, T Eisenbarth… - 2023 IEEE 8th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Messengers have become an essential means of interpersonal interaction. Yet untraceable
private communication remains an elusive goal, as most messengers hide content, but not …

The applications of blockchain in the covert communication

B Du, D He, M Luo, C Peng… - … and Mobile Computing, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Covert communication is designed for hiding the subliminal communication which takes
place between both of the speakers and their relationship. The traditional covert …