Stealthy network transfer of data

Abstract

Users of computer systems may often require the private transfer of messages/communications between parties across a network. However, unwanted interception/sniffing of such communications is also a possibility. An elementary stealthy transfer scheme is therefore proposed by the author. This scheme makes use of encoding, splitting of a message and the use of a hashing algorithm to verify the correctness of the reconstructed message. For this proof-of-concept purpose, the authors have experimented with the random sending of encoded parts of a message and the construction thereof to demonstrate how data can stealthily be transferred across a network so as to prevent the obvious retrieval of data