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In article <1992Aug12.204649.4110@osf.org>, karger@osf.org (Paul A.
Karger) writes: 
> Covert channels involve illicit communications between two processes,
> a transmitter process that is running a Trojan horse, and a receiver
> process that belongs to a spy.

You seem to imply that it can't be a covert channel without intent.
I've always relied on the notion of information flow - if the writer
of the transmitter program did not specify the information as an
output, and if a receiver program can detect the information, then you
have a covert channel, a concept further divided into storage and
timing channels.

If you don't agree, what alternate term would you use to describe the
password inference problem originally described?