Stealth packet switching
View Patent ↗Systems, methods, devices, and network architectures are disclosed for creating and implementing secure wireless, wired, and/or optical networks using specially modified “stealth” packets, cells, frames, and/or other “stealth” information structures. This enables stealth packets, network elements, and networks to have a low probability of detection, interception, and interpretation. The “stealth” packets, switches, networks, and methods provide invisibility or “cloaking” by modifying previously existing standards rules for packet structures, protocols, timing, synchronization, and other elements. Stealth packets, network elements, and networks may be further enhanced with encryption techniques by encrypting various parts of, or the entire packet structure itself, for example, headers, preambles, payload, and/or other packet elements. Using encryption to modify the packet structure itself adds an entirely new level of encryption complexity, thus making the stealth communications orders of magnitude more difficult to decrypt than standard decryption techniques.
1. A method for transferring information structures, comprising the steps of:
receiving a first information structure with rule violations;
modifying said first information structure such that said rule violations are removed, thereby forming a second information structure without said rule violations; and
wherein said rule violations comprise one or more actions from the group consisting of violating packet structure rules, altering packet format, altering packet length, altering byte organization, violating content rules, violating pattern rules, causing bit rate violations, causing timing violations, causing synchronization violations, causing encoding violations, adding noise, causing amplitude violations, causing phase violations, causing strength violations, causing frequency violations, causing procedural violations, causing errors, causing faults, altering fields, violating protocol rules, adding one or more bits, deleting one or more bits, rearranging one or more bits, transposing one or more bits, transforming one or more bits, substituting one or more bits, permutating one or more bits, inverting one or more bits, scrambling bits, repeating bits, whitening bits, encrypting one or more bits, altering clock synchronization, altering clock phasing, altering clock timing, altering packet subsections, altering preambles, altering synchronization bits, altering start of frame delimiters, altering headers, altering trailers, and altering flags.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said rule violations comprise one or more characteristics from the group consisting of encrypted, non-encrypted, partially encrypted, fixed, non-fixed, repeating, non-repeating, programmable, previously known, previously unknown, random, pseudorandom, variable, predictably variable, dynamic, and rotating.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said rule violations comprise one or more transmission technologies selected from the group consisting of wired, wireless, optical, ultra wide band, wavelets, time division multiplexing, spread spectrum, frequency hopping, direct sequence, high rate/direct sequence spread spectrum, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, wave-division multiplexing, dense wave division multiplexing, and discrete multi-tone.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein said rule violations are of one or more standards from the group consisting of ANSI standards, IEEE standards, IEEE 802 standards, IEEE 803, IEEE 802.X, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.11x, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.16x, IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standards, TCP standards, IP standards, UDP standards, Physical Layer Convergence Procedure, PHY standards, Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance standards, Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection standards, Generic Route Encapsulation, Physical Media Dependent standards, Frequency Hopping standards, Direct Sequence standards, High Rate/Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum standards, Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying standards, spreading standards, correlation standards, pseudo-random noise codes, barker sequences, chipping sequences, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing standards, scrambling standards, whitening standards, Local Area Network standards, Metropolitan Area Network standards, Wide Area Network standards, Storage Area Network Standards, Personal Area Network standards, inter-processor communication standards, Radio Frequency Identification standards, and point to point tunneling protocol standards.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein said step of transferring comprises one or more actions selected from the group comprising decoding, receiving, switching, routing, forwarding, bypassing, intercepting, detecting, interpreting, and analyzing.
6. A network system for transferring information structures, comprising:
one or more first network elements capable of transferring one or more information structures in accordance with one or more information structure rule violations;
one or more second network elements capable of receiving and correctly deconstructing said one or more information structures in accordance with said one or more information structure rule violations;
a communications medium between said one or more first network elements and said one or more second network elements for transferring said one or more information structures in accordance with said one or more information structure rule violations; and
wherein said rule violations comprise one or more actions from the group consisting of violating packet structure rules, altering packet format, altering packet length, altering byte organization, violating content rules, violating pattern rules, causing bit rate violations, causing timing violations, causing synchronization violations, causing encoding violations, adding noise, causing amplitude violations, causing phase violations, causing strength violations, causing frequency violations, causing procedural violations, causing errors, causing faults, altering fields, violating protocol rules, adding one or more bits, deleting one or more bits, rearranging one or more bits, transposing one or more bits, transforming one or more bits, substituting one or more bits, permutating one or more bits, inverting one or more bits, scrambling bits, repeating bits, whitening bits, encrypting one or more bits, altering clock synchronization, altering clock phasing, altering clock timing, altering packet subsections, altering preambles, altering synchronization bits, altering start of frame delimiters, altering headers, altering trailers, and altering flags.
7. The network of claim 6 , wherein said one or more first network elements is further capable of transferring one or more information structures without rule violations.
8. The network of claim 6 , wherein said one or more second network elements is further capable of receiving one or more information structures without rule violations.
9. The network of claim 6 , wherein said rule violations comprise one or more characteristics from the group consisting of encrypted, non-encrypted, partially encrypted, fixed, non-fixed, repeating, non-repeating, programmable, previously known, previously unknown, random, pseudorandom, variable, predictably variable, dynamic, and rotating.
10. The network of claim 6 , wherein said rule violations comprise one or more communication methods selected from the group consisting of ultra wide band, wavelets, time division multiplexing, spread spectrum, frequency hopping, direct sequence, high rate/direct sequence spread spectrum, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, wave-division multiplexing, dense wave division multiplexing, and discrete multi-tone.
11. The network of claim 6 , wherein said rule violations are of one or more standards from the group consisting of ANSI standards, IEEE standards, IEEE 802 standards, IEEE 803, IEEE 802.X, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.11x, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.16x, IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standards, TCP standards, IP standards, UDP standards, Physical Layer Convergence Procedure, PHY standards, Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance standards, Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection standards, Generic Route Encapsulation, Physical Media Dependent standards, Frequency Hopping standards, Direct Sequence standards, High Rate/Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum standards, Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying standards, spreading standards, correlation standards, pseudo-random noise codes, barker sequences, chipping sequences, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing standards, scrambling standards, whitening standards, Local Area Network standards, Metropolitan Area Network standards, Wide Area Network standards, Storage Area Network Standards, Personal Area Network standards, inter-processor communication standards, Radio Frequency Identification standards, and point to point tunneling protocol standards.
12. The network of claim 6 wherein said communications medium comprises one or more types from the group consisting of wired communications media, wireless communications media, optical communications media, shared communications media, non-shared communications media, local area network communications media, mesh communications media, chip-to-chip communications media, grid computing communications media, and point-to-point communications media.
13. The network of claim 6 wherein sessions may be set up and torn down between said one or more first network elements and said one or more second network elements for transferring said one or more information structures with said one or more information structure rule violations.
14. A device for transferring information structures with rule violations, comprising:
one or more input sections for receiving one or more information structures with one or more information structure rule violations;
wherein said rule violations comprise one or more actions from the group consisting of violating packet structure rules, altering packet format, altering packet length, altering byte organization, violating content rules, violating pattern rules, causing bit rate violations, causing timing violations, causing synchronization violations, causing encoding violations, adding noise, causing amplitude violations, causing phase violations, causing strength violations, causing frequency violations, causing procedural violations, causing errors, causing faults, altering fields, violating protocol rules, adding one or more bits, deleting one or more bits, rearranging one or more bits, transposing one or more bits, transforming one or more bits, substituting one or more bits, permutating one or more bits, inverting one or more bits, scrambling bits, repeating bits, whitening bits, encrypting one or more bits, altering clock synchronization, altering clock phasing, altering clock timing, altering packet subsections, altering preambles, altering synchronization bits, altering start of frame delimiters, altering headers, altering trailers, and altering flags.
15. The device of claim 14 further comprising a policy manager, wherein said policy manager controls correct deconstruction of said one or more information structure rule violations for said one or more information structures in said one or more input sections.
16. The device of claim 15 , wherein said policy manager is programmable to implement programmable information structure rule violations and rule violation deconstruction.
17. The device of claim 14 , further comprising one or more switching fabrics for switching one or more information structures with rule violations and one or more standard information structures without rule violations from said one or more input sections to one or more output sections.
18. The device of claim 14 , wherein said rule violations comprise one or more characteristics from the group consisting of encrypted, non-encrypted, partially encrypted, fixed, non-fixed, repeating, non-repeating, programmable, previously known, previously unknown, random, pseudorandom, variable, predictably variable, dynamic, and rotating.
19. The device of claim 14 , wherein said rule violations comprise one or more communication methods selected from the group consisting of ultra wide band, wavelets, time division multiplexing, spread spectrum, frequency hopping, direct sequence, high rate/direct sequence spread spectrum, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, wave-division multiplexing, dense wave division multiplexing, and discrete multi-tone.
20. The device of claim 14 , wherein said rule violations are of one or more standards from the group consisting of ANSI standards, IEEE standards, IEEE 802 standards, IEEE 803, IEEE 802.X, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.11x, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.16, IEEE 802.16x, IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standards, TCP standards, IP standards, UDP standards, Physical Layer Convergence Procedure, PHY standards, Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance standards, Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection standards, Generic Route Encapsulation, Physical Media Dependent standards, Frequency Hopping standards, Direct Sequence standards, High Rate/Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum standards, Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying standards, spreading standards, correlation standards, pseudo-random noise codes, barker sequences, chipping sequences, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing standards, scrambling standards, whitening standards, Local Area Network standards, Metropolitan Area Network standards, Wide Area Network standards, Storage Area Network Standards, Personal Area Network standards, inter-processor communication standards, Radio Frequency Identification standards, and point to point tunneling protocol standards.