full-disclosure - Interesting idea for a covert channel or I just didn't research enough?

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Date: Thu Oct  6 14:50:11 2005
From: michael.holstein at csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)
Subject: Interesting idea for a covert channel or I just
	didn't research enough?

> attacker sends packets -> packets are dropped by firewall -> packets 
> properties are captured in logs  -> backdoor reads logs and finds 
> encoded commands -> commands are executed

As a covert channel? .. no, it's a waste. Once you have the access to 
set that up, you could establish any number of more efficient schemes.

As a way to do a "remote wake-up" though .. it might have some promise 
.. but it still depends on too many other variables.

~Mike.