Packet Juggling - Floating Data Storage

Filthmaster writes "I just saw an interesting paper that has been posted to bugtraq, full-disclosure and vulnwatch. It deals with the principles of stealthily using network infrastructure as either short-term or long-term storage. Not sure if I'm ready to implement it, but it makes interesting food for thought." There's also a mirror up.

Comments

it's alive!

[geoff lane]

First you give it comms, then unlimited CPU and now distributed memory.

Can Skynet be far behind...

Re:Bandwidth?

[Zocalo]

Ah, but in this context that could be a good thing since a slower Internet = more latency = longer TTL on your data. Take the ping for example; if it takes twice as long for your ping to echo back with your data, then you only need to retransmit back to storage at half the rate.

I wasn't trying DoS the Internet your honour... I was trying to improve data retention times! ;)

You don't need the Internet to do this

[melonman]

Just burn a CD a day and post it to a non-existant address on the other side of the world. That way you can probably keep a terabyte of data int he air without taking any space in your office, and, unlike TCP/IP, you may be able to reuse the wrappers.