PT16. Artificial Resets

Initial publication	L. Hartmann, S. Zillien, S. Wendzel in [1].
Illustration	The pattern PT16 Artificial Resets is embedded by a CS that causes a connection reset of third-party nodes, whose connection states are observed by one or more CRs. The pattern is a protocol-aware timing pattern. So far, the pattern has only been described for an indirect covert channel.
Context	Network Covert Timing Channels -> Protocol-aware
Evidence	see [1]
Implementation	https://github.com/NIoSaT/CoAP-Covert-Channels features the first known implementation and is based on the IoT protocol CoAP.

References:

[1 ] Laura Hartmann, Sebastian Zillien, Steffen Wendzel: Reset- and Reconnection-based Covert Channels in CoAP. In: Proc. European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC 2021). ACM, DOI: 10.1145/3487405.3487660