Unicode Steganographic Exploits: Maintaining Enterprise Border Security

  • Authors:
  • Frank J. Mabry;John R. James;Aaron J. Ferguson

  • Affiliations:
  • US Military Academy, West Point;US Military Academy, West Point;US Military Academy, West Point

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Unicode is rapidly becoming the preferred means for representing symbols used in creating multimedia content, especially for information that's presented in multiple languages. A vulnerability in unicode leaves such content susceptible to being used for the creation of covert channel communications.