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The number and variety of Internet-connected devices have grown enormously in the past few years, presenting new challenges to security and privacy. Research has shown that network adversaries can use traffic rate metadata from consumer IoT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Trisha Datta , Noah Apthorpe , Nick Feamster

The proliferation of smart home Internet of Things (IoT) devices presents unprecedented challenges for preserving privacy within the home. In this paper, we demonstrate that a passive network observer (e.g., an Internet service provider)…

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The IoT (Internet of Things) technology has been widely adopted in recent years and has profoundly changed the people's daily lives. However, in the meantime, such a fast-growing technology has also introduced new privacy issues, which need…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Shuaike Dong , Zhou Li , Di Tang , Jiongyi Chen , Menghan Sun , Kehuan Zhang

The growing market for smart home IoT devices promises new conveniences for consumers while presenting new challenges for preserving privacy within the home. Many smart home devices have always-on sensors that capture users' offline…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Noah Apthorpe , Dillon Reisman , Srikanth Sundaresan , Arvind Narayanan , Nick Feamster

The Internet of Things (IoT) will be a main data generation infrastructure for achieving better system intelligence. However, the extensive data collection and processing in IoT also engender various privacy concerns. This paper provides a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Mengyao Zheng , Dixing Xu , Linshan Jiang , Chaojie Gu , Rui Tan , Peng Cheng

Despite encryption, the packet size is still visible, enabling observers to infer private information in the Internet of Things (IoT) environment (e.g., IoT device identification). Packet padding obfuscates packet-length characteristics…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Mnassar Alyami , Abdulmajeed Alghamdi , Mohammed Alkhowaiter , Cliff Zou , Yan Solihin

The rapid proliferation of the Internet of Things has intensified demand for robust privacy-preserving machine learning mechanisms to safeguard sensitive data generated by large-scale, heterogeneous, and resource-constrained devices. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zakia Zaman , Praveen Gauravaram , Mahbub Hassan , Sanjay Jha , Wen Hu

The increasing deployment of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices has accelerated the use of distributed learning frameworks, where data remains local while model updates are shared across decentralized systems. Although this reduces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 John Cartmell , Alexander Williams

It is well known that when IoT traffic is unencrypted it is possible to identify the active devices based on their TCP/IP headers. And when traffic is encrypted, packet-sizes and timings can still be used to do so. To defend against such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Aviv Engelberg , Avishai Wool

A myriad of IoT devices such as bulbs, switches, speakers in a smart home environment allow users to easily control the physical world around them and facilitate their living styles through the sensors already embedded in these devices.…

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has expanded opportunities for innovation but also increased exposure to botnet-driven cyberattacks. Conventional detection methods often struggle with scalability, privacy, and adaptability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Taha M. Mahmoud , Naima Kaabouch

The growing market for smart home IoT devices promises new conveniences for consumers while presenting novel challenges for preserving privacy within the home. Specifically, Internet service providers or neighborhood WiFi eavesdroppers can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Noah Apthorpe , Dillon Reisman , Nick Feamster

The Internet has recently witnessed unprecedented growth of a class of connected assets called the Internet of Things (IoT). Due to relatively immature manufacturing processes and limited computing resources, IoTs have inadequate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Arman Pashamokhtari

The proliferation of Internet-of-things (IoT) infrastructures and the widespread adoption of traffic encryption present significant challenges, particularly in environments characterized by dynamic traffic patterns, constrained…

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Internet of Things (IoT) has brought along immense benefits to our daily lives encompassing a diverse range of application domains that we regularly interact with, ranging from healthcare automation to transport and smart environments.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Mengmeng Ge , Naeem Firdous Syed , Xiping Fu , Zubair Baig , Antonio Robles-Kelly

The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices introduces significant security challenges due to limited visibility and weak device-level guarantees. Accurate and timely identification of devices is essential for enforcing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Alex Ciechonski , Fabio Palmese , Alessandro E. C. Redondi , Anna Maria Mandalari

Internet of things (IoT) that integrate a variety of devices into networks to provide advanced and intelligent services have to protect user privacy and address attacks such as spoofing attacks, denial of service attacks, jamming and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Liang Xiao , Xiaoyue Wan , Xiaozhen Lu , Yanyong Zhang , Di Wu

Security is one of the fundamental challenges in the Internet of Things (IoT) due to the heterogeneity and resource constraints of the IoT devices. Device classification methods are employed to enhance the security of IoT by detecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Ali Dorri , Clemence Roulin , Raja Jurdak , Salil Kanhere

With the increasing popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, security concerns have become a major challenge: confidential information is constantly being transmitted (sometimes inadvertently) from user devices to untrusted cloud…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Peterson Yuhala

Internet of Things (IoT) is a disruptive technology with applications across diverse domains such as transportation and logistics systems, smart grids, smart homes, connected vehicles, and smart cities. Alongside the growth of these…

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