Re: ICMP spoofed source tunneling

On Wednesday 22 September 2004 11:33, fenfire@abwesend.de wrote:

> > When V receiving that packet, it sends ICMP echo-reply packet to D, AND
> > FORWARDS TO D ALL DATA IN PAYLOAD!
>
> This could also be used by peer-to-peer networks to achieve sender
> anonymity. (Of course you could also directly send UDP packets with forged
> source addresses...)

A few people started work on this. We built a crude program that would 
transfer files over UDP with spoofed addresses.

http://udpp2p.sourceforge.net/ (We haven't worked on it in ages.)

Main problems? ISPs filter outbound on their routers, which can cause 
problems, and the other big problem was the handshaking/acking/resending. How 
can you tell the guy that you missed a packet if you have no way of 
contacting him.
We used a broadcast method to perform the searches, and "ttl"s to stop it 
going on for ever but we weren't sure how it would scale.

Also the ICMP is a great way of transferring data - just bounce a stream of 
ICMP echo-requests off any host that returns them and has a lot of bandwidth 
- google, bbc.co.uk, cisco, etc, and if you set the source address as the 
target address, no-one knows who you are.

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