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Fingerprint traits are widely recognized for their unique qualities and security benefits. Despite their extensive use, fingerprint features can be vulnerable to puppet attacks, where attackers manipulate a reluctant but genuine user into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Wenhao Wang , Guyue Li , Zhiming Chu , Haobo Li , Daniele Faccio

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

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

AI browsing agents are an emerging class of AI-powered bots capable of autonomously navigating websites. Unlike traditional web bots, AI browsing agents typically operate using real browsers and perform everyday tasks, making them difficult…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ethan Wang , Zubair Shafiq , Yash Vekaria

Traditional authentication systems that rely on simple passwords, PIN numbers or tokens have many security issues, like easily guessed passwords, PIN numbers written on the back of cards, etc. Thus, biometric authentication methods that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Richard Brown , Gueltoum Bendiab , Stavros Shiaeles , Bogdan Ghita

Several recent studies have demonstrated that people show large behavioural uniqueness. This has serious privacy implications as most individuals become increasingly re-identifiable in large datasets or can be tracked while they are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Gabor Gyorgy Gulyas , Gergely Acs , Claude Castelluccia

Advertisers are increasingly turning to fingerprinting techniques to track users across the web. As web browsing activity shifts to mobile platforms, traditional browser fingerprinting techniques become less effective; however, device…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Anupam Das , Nikita Borisov , Edward Chou , Muhammad Haris Mughees

Biometric authentication is a widely used security mechanism that leverages unique physiological or behavioral characteristics to authenticate users. In multi-factor biometrics (MFB), multiple biometric modalities, e.g., physiological and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Howard Halim , Eyasu Getahun Chekole , Daniël Reijsbergen , Jianying Zhou

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…

Prior measurement studies on browser fingerprinting have unfortunately largely excluded Web Audio API-based fingerprinting in their analysis. We address this issue by conducting the first systematic study of effectiveness of web audio…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Shekhar Chalise , Phani Vadrevu

We propose IrisFP, a novel adversarial-example-based model fingerprinting framework that enhances both uniqueness and robustness by leveraging multi-boundary characteristics, multi-sample behaviors, and fingerprint discriminative power…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ziye Geng , Guang Yang , Yihang Chen , Changqing Luo

Fingerprint authentication has been widely adopted on smartphones to complement traditional password authentication, making it a tempting target for attackers. The smartphone industry is fully aware of existing threats, and especially for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Yu Chen , Yiling He

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

In this paper, we provide an overview of fingerprint sensing methods used for authentication. We analyze the current fingerprint sensing technologies, from algorithmic, as well as from hardware perspectives. We then focus on methods to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Filipp Demenschonok , Jason Harrigan , Tamara Bonaci

Implicit authentication consists of a server authenticating a user based on the user's usage profile, instead of/in addition to relying on something the user explicitly knows (passwords, private keys, etc.). While implicit authentication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Qianhong Wu , Alberto Blanco-Justicia

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

We devised a mobile biometric-based authentication system only relying on local processing. Our Android open source solution explores the capability of current smartphones to acquire, process and match fingerprints using only its built-in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-13 J. S. Hammudoglu , J. Sparreboom , J. I. Rauhamaa , J. K. Faber , L. C. Guerchi , I. P. Samiotis , S. P. Rao , J. A. Pouwelse

This paper presents a novel approach for deciding on the appropriateness or not of an acquired fingerprint image into a given database. The process begins with the assembly of a training base in an image space constructed by combining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 E. F. Melo , H. M. de Oliveira

We present AuthREST, an open-source security testing tool targeting broken authentication, one of the most prevalent API security risks in the wild. AuthREST automatically tests web APIs for credential stuffing, password brute forcing, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Davide Corradini , Mariano Ceccato , Mohammad Ghafari