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Although encryption protocols such as TLS are widely de-ployed,side-channel metadata in encrypted traffic still reveals patterns that allow application and behavior inference.How-ever,existing fine-grained fingerprinting approaches face two…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 YuKun Zhu , ManYuan Hua , Hai Huang , YongZhao Zhang , Jie Yang , FengHua Xu , RuiDong Chen , XiaoSong Zhang , JiGuo Yu , Yong Ma

Website fingerprinting (WF) attacks identify the websites visited over anonymized connections by analyzing patterns in network traffic flows, such as packet sizes, directions, or interval times using a machine learning classifier. Previous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chuxu Song , Zining Fan , Hao Wang , Richard Martin

TLS is an end-to-end protocol designed to provide confidentiality and integrity guarantees that improve end-user security and privacy. While TLS helps defend against pervasive surveillance of intercepted unencrypted traffic, it also hinders…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Xavier de Carné de Carnavalet , Paul C. van Oorschot

Detecting Domain Name System (DNS) tunneling is a significant challenge in security due to its capacity to hide harmful actions within DNS traffic that appears to be normal and legitimate. Traditional detection methods are based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Novruz Amirov , Baran Isik , Bilal Ihsan Tuncer , Serif Bahtiyar

A general theoretical framework for Fingerprinting Localization Algorithms (FPS), given their popularity, can be utilized for their performance studies. In this work, after setting up an abstract model for FPS, it is shown that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Arash Behboodi , Filip Lemic , Adam Wolisz

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

Testing of network services represents one of the biggest challenges in cyber security. Because new vulnerabilities are detected on a regular basis, more research is needed. These faults have their roots in the software development cycle or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Josip Bozic , Lina Marsso , Radu Mateescu , Franz Wotawa

Recent advances confirm that large language models (LLMs) can achieve state-of-the-art performance across various tasks. However, due to the resource-intensive nature of training LLMs from scratch, it is urgent and crucial to protect the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zhiguang Yang , Hanzhou Wu

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

There are concerns that the ability of language models (LMs) to generate high quality synthetic text can be misused to launch spam, disinformation, or propaganda. Therefore, the research community is actively working on developing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Nirav Diwan , Tanmoy Chakravorty , Zubair Shafiq

Localization of wireless transmitters based on channel state information (CSI) fingerprinting finds widespread use in indoor as well as outdoor scenarios. Fingerprinting localization first builds a database containing CSI with measured…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Larry Tang , Ramina Ghods , Christoph Studer

Networked control systems (NCSs) are an example of task-oriented communication systems, where the purpose of communication is real-time control of processes over a network. In the context of NCSs, with the processes sending their state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-29 Polina Kutsevol , Onur Ayan , Wolfgang Kellerer

The use of TLS by malware poses new challenges to network threat detection because traditional pattern-matching techniques can no longer be applied to its messages. However, TLS also introduces a complex set of observable data features that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Blake Anderson , Subharthi Paul , David McGrew

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

Fingerprinting large language models (LLMs) is essential for verifying model ownership, ensuring authenticity, and preventing misuse. Traditional fingerprinting methods often require significant computational overhead or white-box…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jiacheng Cai , Jiahao Yu , Yangguang Shao , Yuhang Wu

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

Recent advances in learning Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures have received a great deal of attention due to their ability to outperform state-of-the-art classifiers across a wide range of applications, with little or no feature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Se Eun Oh , Saikrishna Sunkam , Nicholas Hopper

Malware abuses TLS to encrypt its malicious traffic, preventing examination by content signatures and deep packet inspection. Network detection of malicious TLS flows is an important, but challenging, problem. Prior works have proposed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Gibran Gomez , Platon Kotzias , Matteo Dell'Amico , Leyla Bilge , Juan Caballero

The paper presents an analysis of the main mechanisms of decryption of SSL/TLS traffic. Methods and technologies for detecting malicious activity in encrypted traffic that are used by leading companies are also considered. Also, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Tamara Radivilova , Lyudmyla Kirichenko , Dmytro Ageyev , Maxim Tawalbeh , Vitalii Bulakh

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