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

If this were quick enough

[Amiga Lover]

If it were quick enough and timed well enough, could network bounced packets be enough for some really quick swapped out swap space? gig ethernet gets around 1ms to my next machine, and thats 10 times quicker than my hard drive (10ms access time) so if I could store swap in that space, would that work?

I was thinking of tunneling ssh over sms before this, but that sounds just silly now.

Reminds us of the old days...

[ControlFreal]

... in which complete computer memories worked like this: those were called mercury delay line memories, in which pressure waves in mercury lines basically held information.

The UNIVAC I had such an 18-channel memory. More information can be found here, here, and here.

These channels could hold a whopping kilobit!