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As browser fingerprinting is increasingly being used for bot detection, bots have started altering their fingerprints for evasion. We conduct the first large-scale evaluation of evasive bots to investigate whether and how altering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Hari Venugopalan , Shaoor Munir , Shuaib Ahmed , Tangbaihe Wang , Samuel T. King , Zubair Shafiq

Users' website browsing history contains sensitive information, like health conditions, political interests, financial situations, etc. Some recent studies have demonstrated the possibility of inferring website fingerprints based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Han Wang

This paper conducts an extensive review of biometric user authentication literature, addressing three primary research questions: (1) commonly used biometric traits and their suitability for specific applications, (2) performance factors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Reem Alrawili , Ali Abdullah S. AlQahtani , Muhammad Khurram Khan

Website Fingerprinting (WFP) uses deep learning models to classify encrypted network traffic to infer visited websites. While historically effective, prior methods fail to generalize to modern web environments. Single-page applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Chuxu Song , Dheekshith Dev Manohar Mekala , Hao Wang , Richard Martin

Browser fingerprinting aims to identify users or their devices, through scripts that execute in the users' browser and collect information on software or hardware characteristics. It is used to track users or as an additional means of…

Fingerprints are the most widely deployed form of biometric identification. No two individuals share the same fingerprint because they have unique biometric identifiers. This paper presents an efficient fingerprint verification algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Rahul Kumar Jaiswal , Gaurav Saxena

The human footprint is having a unique set of ridges unmatched by any other human being, and therefore it can be used in different identity documents for example birth certificate, Indian biometric identification system AADHAR card, driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Kapil Kumar Nagwanshi

One of the open issues in fingerprint verification is the lack of robustness against image-quality degradation. Poor-quality images result in spurious and missing features, thus degrading the performance of the overall system. Therefore, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Julian Fierrez , Javier Ortega-Garcia , Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez , Hartwig Fronthaler , Klaus Kollreider , Josef Bigun

Modern web browsers have effectively become the new operating system for business applications, yet their security posture is often under-scrutinized. This paper presents a novel, comprehensive Browser Security Posture Analysis…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Avihay Cohen

Partial fingerprint recognition is a method to recognize an individual when the sensor size has a small form factor in accepting a full fingerprint. It is also used in forensic research to identify the partial fingerprints collected from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Mahesh Joshi , Bodhisatwa Mazumdar , Somnath Dey

The widespread use of smart devices gives rise to both security and privacy concerns. Fingerprinting smart devices can assist in authenticating physical devices, but it can also jeopardize privacy by allowing remote identification without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-14 Anupam Das , Nikita Borisov , Matthew Caesar

Internet users are vulnerable to privacy attacks despite the use of encryption. Webpage fingerprinting, an attack that analyzes encrypted traffic, can identify the webpages visited by a user in a given website. Recent research works have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Gargi Mitra , Prasanna Karthik Vairam , Sandip Saha , Nitin Chandrachoodan , V. Kamakoti

Web forms are one of the primary ways to collect personal information online, yet they are relatively under-studied. Unlike web tracking, data collection through web forms is explicit and contextualized. Users (i) are asked to input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Hao Cui , Rahmadi Trimananda , Athina Markopoulou

The web browser is one of the major channels to access the Internet on mobile devices. Based on the smartphone usage logs from millions of real-world Android users, it is interesting to find that about 38% users have more than one browser…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Yun Ma , Shuailiang Dong

In the current network-based computing world, where the number of interconnected devices grows exponentially, their diversity, malfunctions, and cybersecurity threats are increasing at the same rate. To guarantee the correct functioning and…

Identification of a person from fingerprints of good quality has been used by commercial applications and law enforcement agencies for many years, however identification of a person from latent fingerprints is very difficult and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Hamid Jan , Amjad Ali , Shahid Mahmood , Gautam Srivastava

Fingerprint recognition requires a minimal effort from the user, does not capture other information than strictly necessary for the recognition process, and provides relatively good performance. A critical step in fingerprint identification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-21 Amira Mohammad Abdel-Mawgoud Saleh

The demand for biometric systems has been increasing with the growth of the smartphone market. Biometric devices allow the user to authenticate easily while securing its private data without the need to remember any access code. Amongst…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Mathilde Bourjot , Regis Perrier , Jean François Mainguet

Website fingerprinting attack is an extensively studied technique used in a web browser to analyze traffic patterns and thus infer confidential information about users. Several website fingerprinting attacks based on machine learning and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Guodong Huang , Chuan Ma , Ming Ding , Yuwen Qian , Chunpeng Ge , Liming Fang , Zhe Liu

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