June 2012
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
19h 10m
English
“All that is required is the ingenuity . . .”
—daemon9, coauthor of Loki1
Network tunnels are methods of encapsulating traffic in different types of protocols. Although the concept of tunneling sounds sneaky, network tunnels are often used for legitimate purposes, such as aggregating network traffic across switched virtual circuits. In certain circumstances, network tunnels are used to provide a layer of encryption for data in transit. Tunnels can also be used for illegitimate purposes, in order to hide content in ways that firewalls and NIDSs are not instrumented to detect or prevent.
In this chapter, we explore the inner workings of network tunnels, what they are used for, and how to detect and dissect them. We ...
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