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How to bypass a firewall Pei Guo Master Media Informatics Matr. Nr.: 268643 Title of Seminar: Computer Security Prof. Dr. Joachim von zur Gathen Tutor: Michael Nüsken Daniel Loebenberger Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology 06.11.2006 1. Abstract Nowadays, the Internet users are traditionally relied on the firewalls to enforce their security policy by protecting their local network systems from the network-based security threat and illegal data access. However, these controls do not provide a comprehensive solution to secure a private network connected to the Internet. The purpose of this paper is focused on the origin, definition, functionalities and characteristics of the various firewalls. Then, this paper also describes some methods to bypass the firewall. 2. Introduction As we all know, the Internet has experienced a rapid and triumphant improvement in the last decade. [Rolf(1997.5)] indicates that there have had over one million computer networks and well over one billion users by the end of the last century. The Internet is penetrating every field all over the world. At the beginning, the Internet was built only as research-oriented and its communication protocols were designed for a more non-malignant environment than now exists. But when the time went on, the Internet is twisted steadily from the initial one and its environment is much less reliable. It has all dangerous and risky situations, intended and malignant attacks and nasty people that we can find in the real life society as a whole. Today, when the users are connected to the Inte