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Smart homes are increasingly populated with heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) devices that interact continuously with users and the environment. This diversity introduces critical challenges in device identification, authentication,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Eduardo Baena , Han Yang , Dimitrios Koutsonikolas , Israat Haque

Smart homes, enterprises, and cities are increasingly being equipped with a plethora of Internet of Things (IoT), ranging from smart-lights to security cameras. While IoT networks have the potential to benefit our lives, they create privacy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Arunan Sivanathan

Network traffic analysis using AI (machine learning and deep learning) models made significant progress over the past decades. Traffic analysis addresses various challenging problems in network security, ranging from detection of anomalies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Dinil Mon Divakaran

The SSH protocol is commonly used to access remote systems on the Internet, as it provides an encrypted and authenticated channel for communication. If upon establishing a new connection, the presented server key is unknown to the client,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Sebastian Neef , Nils Wisiol

Analyzing users' Internet traffic data and activities has a certain impact on users' experiences in different ways, from maintaining the quality of service on the Internet and providing users with high-quality recommendation systems to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Aida Ramezani , Amirhossein Khajehpour , Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani

Users of electronic devices, e.g., laptop, smartphone, etc. have characteristic behaviors while surfing the Web. Profiling this behavior can help identify the person using a given device. In this paper, we introduce a technique to profile…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Radek Tomsu , Samuel Marchal , N. Asokan

Cross-device tracking has drawn growing attention from both commercial companies and the general public because of its privacy implications and applications for user profiling, personalized services, etc. One particular, wide-used type of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Binghui Wang , Tianchen Zhou , Song Li , Yinzhi Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

AI-driven applications have become woven into students' academic and creative workflows, influencing how they learn, write, and produce ideas. Gaining a nuanced understanding of these usage patterns is essential, yet conventional survey and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Donghan Hu , Rameen Mahmood , Annabelle David , Danny Yuxing Huang

Website fingerprinting enables an attacker to infer which web page a client is browsing through encrypted or anonymized network connections. We present a new website fingerprinting technique based on random decision forests and evaluate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Jamie Hayes , George Danezis

Home-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices have gained in popularity and many households have become 'smart' by using devices such as smart sensors, locks, and voice-based assistants. Traditional authentication methods such as passwords,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Talha Ongun , Oliver Spohngellert , Alina Oprea , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Mihai Christodorescu , Negin Salajegheh

Browser fingerprinting often provides an attractive alternative to third-party cookies for tracking users across the web. In fact, the increasing restrictions on third-party cookies placed by common web browsers and recent regulations like…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai , Igor Bilogrevic , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Browser fingerprinting consists in collecting attributes from a web browser to build a browser fingerprint. In this work, we assess the adequacy of browser fingerprints as an authentication factor, on a dataset of 4,145,408 fingerprints…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Nampoina Andriamilanto , Tristan Allard , Gaëtan Le Guelvouit

Website fingerprinting (WF) attacks, which covertly monitor user communications to identify the web pages they visit, pose a serious threat to user privacy. Existing WF defenses attempt to reduce attack accuracy by disrupting traffic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Siyuan Liang , Jiajun Gong , Tianmeng Fang , Aishan Liu , Tao Wang , Xiaochun Cao , Dacheng Tao , Ee-Chien Chang

The sharing of network traces is an important prerequisite for the development and evaluation of efficient anomaly detection mechanisms. Unfortunately, privacy concerns and data protection laws prevent network operators from sharing these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-10-10 Martin Burkhart , Daniela Brauckhoff , Martin May

Browser fingerprinting is a relatively new method of uniquely identifying browsers that can be used to track web users. In some ways it is more privacy-threatening than tracking via cookies, as users have no direct control over it. A number…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Nasser Mohammed Al-Fannah , Wanpeng Li , Chris J Mitchell

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has grown exponentially in recent years, introducing significant security challenges. Accurate identification of the types of IoT devices and their associated actions through network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Reza Ryan , Napoleon Paciente , Cahil Youngs , Nickson Karie , Qian Li , Nasim Ferdosian

Understanding user behavior is essential to personalize and enrich a user's online experience. While there are significant benefits to be accrued from the pursuit of personalized services based on a fine-grained behavioral analysis, care…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Tiep Mai , Deepak Ajwani , Alessandra Sala

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development in the research topic of WiFi sensing that automatically senses human with commercial WiFi devices. This work falls into two major categories, i.e., the activity recognition and the indoor…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Fei Wang , Jianwei Feng , Yinliang Zhao , Xiaobin Zhang , Shiyuan Zhang , Jinsong Han

The exponential growth of data traffic and the increasing complexity of networked applications demand effective solutions capable of passively inspecting and analysing the network traffic for monitoring and security purposes. Implementing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Luca Deri , Alfredo Cardigliano , Francesco Fusco

The Internet traffic data produced by the Internet of Things (IoT) devices are collected by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and device manufacturers, and often shared with their third parties to maintain and enhance user services.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Su Wang , Keyang Yu , Qi Li , Dong Chen