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Tor is vulnerable to network-level adversaries who can observe both ends of the communication to deanonymize users. Recent work has shown that Tor is susceptible to the previously unknown active BGP routing attacks, called RAPTOR attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-07 Yixin Sun , Anne Edmundson , Nick Feamster , Mung Chiang , Prateek Mittal

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are commonly used for various traffic analysis problems, such as website fingerprinting and flow correlation, as they outperform traditional (e.g., statistical) techniques by large margins. However, deep neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Milad Nasr , Alireza Bahramali , Amir Houmansadr

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

Website Fingerprinting (WF) attacks raise major concerns about users' privacy. They employ Machine Learning (ML) to allow a local passive adversary to uncover the Web browsing behavior of a user, even if she browses through an encrypted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Giovanni Cherubin

Passive operating system fingerprinting reveals valuable information to the defenders of heterogeneous private networks; at the same time, attackers can use fingerprinting to reconnoiter networks, so defenders need obfuscation techniques to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Blake Anderson , David McGrew

For the traditional denial-of-service attack detection methods have complex algorithms and high computational overhead, which are difficult to meet the demand of online detection; and the experimental environment is mostly a simulation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Yu Fu , Xueyuan Duan , Kun Wang , Bin Li

Network traffic analysis reveals important information even when messages are encrypted. We consider active traffic analysis via flow fingerprinting by invisibly embedding information into packet timings of flows. In particular, assume…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Ramin Soltani , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Amir Houmansadr

Network flow fingerprinting can be used to de-anonymize communications on anonymity systems such as Tor by linking the ingress and egress segments of anonymized connections. Assume Alice and Bob have access to the input and the output links…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Ramin Soltani , Dennis Goeckel , Don Towsley , Amir Houmansadr

Online services that desire to operate anonymously routinely host themselves as 'Hidden Services' in the Tor network. However, these services are frequently threatened by deanonymization attacks, whereby their IP address and location may be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Humza Ikram , Rumaisa Habib , Muaz Ali , Zartash Afzal Uzmi

Ever since the introduction of the internet, it has been void of any privacy. The majority of internet traffic currently is and always has been unencrypted. A number of anonymous communication overlay networks exist whose aim it is to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Rolf Jagerman , Wendo Sabée , Laurens Versluis , Martijn de Vos , Johan Pouwelse

In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of malware attacks that use encrypted HTTP traffic for self-propagation or communication. Antivirus software and firewalls typically will not have access to encryption keys,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Anish Singh Shekhawat , Fabio Di Troia , Mark Stamp

Insider attacks are one of the most challenging cybersecurity issues for companies, businesses and critical infrastructures. Despite the implemented perimeter defences, the risk of this kind of attack is still very high. In fact, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Efthimios Pantelidis , Gueltoum Bendiab , Stavros Shiaeles , Nicholas Kolokotronis

Fingerprints are one of the most copious evidence in a crime scene and, for this reason, they are frequently used by law enforcement for identification of individuals. But fingerprints can be altered. "Altered fingerprints", refers to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Oliver Giudice , Mattia Litrico , Sebastiano Battiato

Software-defined networking (SDN) eases network management by centralizing the control plane and separating it from the data plane. The separation of planes in SDN, however, introduces new vulnerabilities in SDN networks since the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Heng Cui , Ghassan O. Karame , Felix Klaedtke , Roberto Bifulco

Browser fingerprinting is a stateless identification technique based on browser properties. Together, they form an identifier that can be collected without users' notice and has been studied to be unique and stable. As this technique relies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Antonin Durey , Pierre Laperdrix , Walter Rudametkin , Romain Rouvoy

Deep learning has become a breathtaking technology in the last years, overcoming traditional handcrafted approaches and even humans for many different tasks. However, in some tasks, such as the verification of handwritten signatures, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Julian Fierrez , Javier Ortega-Garcia

The Tor anonymous network has become quite popular with regular users on the Internet. In the Tor network, an anonymous path is created by selecting three relays through which the connection is redirected. Nevertheless, as the number of Tor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Sadegh Momeni Milajerdi , Mehdi Kharrazi

Radio fingerprinting provides a reliable and energy-efficient IoT authentication strategy. By mapping inputs onto a very large feature space, deep learning algorithms can be trained to fingerprint large populations of devices operating…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Francesco Restuccia , Salvatore D'Oro , Amani Al-Shawabka , Mauro Belgiovine , Luca Angioloni , Stratis Ioannidis , Kaushik Chowdhury , Tommaso Melodia

Given the increased growing of Internet of Things networks and their presence in critical aspects of human activities, the security of devices connected to these networks becomes critical. Machine Learning approaches are becoming prominent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jhon Alexánder Parra , Sergio Armando Gutiérrez , John Willian Branch

The attention that deep learning has garnered from the academic community and industry continues to grow year over year, and it has been said that we are in a new golden age of artificial intelligence research. However, neural networks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Erick Galinkin