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While advertising has become commonplace in today's online interactions, there is a notable dearth of research investigating the extent to which browser fingerprinting is harnessed for user tracking and targeted advertising. Prior studies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Zengrui Liu , Jimmy Dani , Yinzhi Cao , Shujiang Wu , Nitesh Saxena

There are many scenarios in which inferring the type of a client browser is desirable, for instance to fight against session stealing. This is known as browser fingerprinting. This paper presents and evaluates a novel fingerprinting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-11-21 Erwan Abgrall , Yves Le Traon , Martin Monperrus , Sylvain Gombault , Mario Heiderich , Alain Ribault

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

With this paper, we survey the research performed in the domain of browser fingerprinting, while providing an accessible entry point to newcomers in the field. We explain how this technique works and where it stems from. We analyze the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Pierre Laperdrix , Nataliia Bielova , Benoit Baudry , Gildas Avoine

This paper introduces adF, a novel system for analyzing the vulnerability of different devices, Operating Systems (OSes), and browsers to web fingerprinting. adF performs its measurements from code inserted in ads. We have used our system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Miguel A. Bermejo-Agueda , Patricia Callejo , Rubén Cuevas , Ángel Cuevas

Device identification is the process of identifying a device on Internet without using its assigned network or other credentials. The sharp rise of usage in Internet of Things (IoT) devices has imposed new challenges in device…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Rajarshi Roy Chowdhury , Sandhya Aneja , Nagender Aneja , Emeroylariffion Abas

Fake fingerprint representation pose a severe threat for fingerprint based authentication systems. Despite advances in presentation attack detection technologies, which are often integrated directly into the fingerprint scanner devices,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Christof Kauba , Luca Debiasi , Andreas Uhl

Fingerprint recognition is one of most popular and accuracy Biometric technologies. Nowadays, it is used in many real applications. However, recognizing fingerprints in poor quality images is still a very complex problem. In recent years,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-07-19 Le Hoang Thai , Ha Nhat Tam

The identification of the devices from which a message is received is part of security mechanisms to ensure authentication in wireless communications. Conventional authentication approaches are cryptography-based, which, however, are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Junqing Zhang , Francesco Ardizzon , Mattia Piana , Guanxiong Shen , Stefano Tomasin

Especially in context of critical urban infrastructures, trust in IoT data is of utmost importance. While most technology stacks provide means for authentication and encryption of device-to-cloud traffic, there are currently no mechanisms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Felix Lorenz , Lauritz Thamsen , Andreas Wilke , Ilja Behnke , Jens Waldmüller-Littke , Ilya Komarov , Odej Kao , Manfred Paeschke

In this demonstration, we put ourselves in the place of a website manager who seeks to use browser fingerprinting for web authentication. The first step is to choose the attributes to implement among the hundreds that are available. To do…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Nampoina Andriamilanto , Tristan Allard

Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) systems increasingly rely on wireless communication standards. In a common industrial scenario, indoor wireless IoT devices communicate with access points to deliver data collected from industrial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Srđan Šobot , Vukan Ninković , Dejan Vukobratović , Milan Pavlović , Miloš Radovanović

802.11 device fingerprinting is the action of characterizing a target device through its wireless traffic. This results in a signature that may be used for identification, network monitoring or intrusion detection. The fingerprinting method…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Christoph Neumann , Olivier Heen , Stéphane Onno

As online tracking continues to grow, existing anti-tracking and fingerprinting detection techniques that require significant manual input must be augmented. Heuristic approaches to fingerprinting detection are precise but must be carefully…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Sarah Bird , Vikas Mishra , Steven Englehardt , Rob Willoughby , David Zeber , Walter Rudametkin , Martin Lopatka

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

Modern browsers give access to several attributes that can be collected to form a browser fingerprint. Although browser fingerprints have primarily been studied as a web tracking tool, they can contribute to improve the current state of web…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Nampoina Andriamilanto , Tristan Allard , Gaëtan Le Guelvouit , Alexandre Garel

The web is experiencing an explosive growth in the last years. New technologies are introduced at a very fast-pace with the aim of narrowing the gap between web-based applications and traditional desktop applications. The results are web…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Alfredo De Santis , Giancarlo De Maio , Umberto Ferraro Petrillo

Fingerprints are popular among the biometric based systems due to ease of acquisition, uniqueness and availability. Nowadays it is used in smart phone security, digital payment and digital locker. Fingerprint recognition technology has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Kim JuSong , Ri IlYong

Web client fingerprinting has become a widely used technique for uniquely identifying users, browsers, operating systems, and devices with high accuracy. While it is beneficial for applications such as fraud detection and personalized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mordechai Guri , Dor Fibert

Deep-learning-based device fingerprinting has recently been recognized as a key enabler for automated network access authentication. Its robustness to impersonation attacks due to the inherent difficulty of replicating physical features is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Bechir Hamdaoui , Abdurrahman Elmaghbub