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 …

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 …

DLchain: A covert channel over blockchain based on dynamic labels

J Tian, G Gou, C Liu, Y Chen, G Xiong, Z Li - … Security: 21st International …, 2020 - Springer
With the continuous improvement of the traffic analysis techniques, traditional network covert
channels based on the TCP/IP architecture are facing many risks. Blockchain is a new kind …

MRCC: a practical covert channel over Monero with provable security

Z Guo, L Shi, M Xu, H Yin - IEEE access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Covert channels are designed to protect the communication relationship of the sender and
receiver. Traditional covert channels have become insecure due to the continuous …

A covert channel over blockchain based on label tree without long waiting times

Z Wang, L Zhang, R Guo, G Wang, J Qiu, S Su, Y Liu… - Computer Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Blockchain, as a decentralized database, provides natural anonymity and tamper-
resistance, safeguarding the identity of both parties in covert communication and preventing …

MSCCS: A Monero-based security-enhanced covert communication system

L Liu, L Liu, B Li, Y Zhong, S Liao, L Zhang - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
Existing public blockchain-based covert communication systems are suffering the issues of
insufficient robustness, anti-temper modification, and anonymity at both the transaction and …

Ccbrsn: a system with high embedding capacity for covert communication in bitcoin

W Wang, C Su - ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection: 35th IFIP …, 2020 - Springer
Covert communication has been using to prevent confidential information from being leaked
to an unintended receiver. In this paper, we present a general purpose novel methodology …

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 …

Achieving a covert channel over an open blockchain network

F Gao, L Zhu, K Gai, C Zhang, S Liu - IEEE network, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain technology is an immutable database that cannot be censored, tampered with, or
erased, which can increase credibility and reduce interaction costs. Therefore, blockchain …

[PDF][PDF] A covert communication method using special bitcoin addresses generated by vanitygen

L Zhang, Z Zhang, W Wang… - Computers …, 2020 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
As an extension of the traditional encryption technology, information hiding has been
increasingly used in the fields of communication and network media, and the covert …