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beaconing design needs work #47

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offlinemark opened this issue Mar 25, 2015 · 1 comment
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beaconing design needs work #47

offlinemark opened this issue Mar 25, 2015 · 1 comment

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Here's a pic of a wireshark capture of poet in action

screen shot 2015-03-25 at 4 01 04 pm

since poet's beacons are woefully simple and literally based on whether the client can socket.connect() to the server, at a network level, this equates to a client sending a tcp syn, and the unlistening server sending back a tcp rst. this is pretty noisy, and all those rsts are really suspicious looking if anyone's looking at traffic.

really need to refactor the beacons to use an actual protocol (beacon over http(s), dns, etc). good examples for this might be

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but of course, if we want these beacons to not trigger rsts, that necessitates a different server-always-on design

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