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Anonymous Communication designs such as Tor build their security on distributed trust over many volunteers running relays in diverse global locations. In practice, this distribution leads to a heterogeneous network in which many versions of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Florentin Rochet , Jules Dejaeghere , Tariq Elahi

A method for detecting electronic data theft from computer networks is described, capable of recognizing patterns of remote exfiltration occurring over days to weeks. Normal traffic flow data, in the form of a host's ingress and egress…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Brian A. Powell

In this paper, we propose HyperVision, a realtime unsupervised machine learning (ML) based malicious traffic detection system. Particularly, HyperVision is able to detect unknown patterns of encrypted malicious traffic by utilizing a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Chuanpu Fu , Qi Li , Ke Xu

Vehicle platooning, with vehicles traveling in close formation coordinated through Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications, offers significant benefits in fuel efficiency and road utilization. However, it is vulnerable to sophisticated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Hexu Li , Konstantinos Kalogiannis , Ahmed Mohamed Hussain , Panos Papadimitratos

Traffic prediction aims to forecast future traffic conditions using historical traffic data, serving a crucial role in urban computing and transportation management. While transfer learning and federated learning have been employed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhihao Zeng , Ziquan Fang , Yuting Huang , Lu Chen , Yunjun Gao

Online voting enables individuals to participate in elections remotely, offering greater efficiency and accessibility in both governmental and organizational settings. As this method gains popularity, ensuring the security of online voting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Anastasiia Belousova , Francesco Marchiori , Mauro Conti

Current low-latency anonymity systems use complex overlay networks to conceal a user's IP address, introducing significant latency and network efficiency penalties compared to normal Internet usage. Rather than obfuscating network identity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Jody Sankey , Matthew Wright

Despite being the most popular privacy-enhancing network, Tor is increasingly adopted by cybercriminals to obfuscate malicious traffic, hindering the identification of malware-related communications between compromised devices and Command…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Ishan Karunanayake , Mashael AlSabah , Nadeem Ahmed , Sanjay Jha

Tor is an anonymity network that allows offering and accessing various kinds of resources, known as hidden services, while guaranteeing sender and receiver anonymity. The Tor web is the set of web resources that exist on the Tor network,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Massimo Bernaschi , Alessandro Celestini , Marco Cianfriglia , Stefano Guarino , Flavio Lombardi , Enrico Mastrostefano

The design and evaluation of data-driven network intrusion detection methods are currently held back by a lack of adequate data, both in terms of benign and attack traffic. Existing datasets are mostly gathered in isolated lab environments…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Henry Clausen , Robert Flood , David Aspinall

Forward Secrecy (FS) is a security property in key-exchange algorithms which guarantees that a compromise in the secrecy of a long-term private-key does not compromise the secrecy of past session keys. With a growing awareness of long-term…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Eman Salem Alashwali , Pawel Szalachowski , Andrew Martin

Rapid urbanization calls for smart traffic management solutions that incorporate sensors, distributed traffic controllers and V2X communication technologies to provide fine-grained traffic control to mitigate congestion. As in many other…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Pratham Oza , Mahsa Foruhandeh , Ryan Gerdes , Thidapat Chantem

Anonymity networks are providing practical mechanisms to protect its users against censorship by hiding their identity and information content. The best-known anonymity network, The Onion Routing (Tor) network, is however subject to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Anna Engelmann , Admela Jukan

Website fingerprinting enables a local eavesdropper to determine which websites a user is visiting over an encrypted connection. State-of-the-art website fingerprinting attacks have been shown to be effective even against Tor. Recently,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Payap Sirinam , Mohsen Imani , Marc Juarez , Matthew Wright

This paper presents the $\underline{\textbf{saf}}$e sub$\underline{\textbf{flo}}$w (Saflo) eBPF-based multipath TCP (MPTCP) scheduler, designed to mitigate traffic analysis attacks in cellular networks. Traffic analysis attacks, which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Sangwoo Lee , Liuyi Jin , Radu Stoleru

We present ShorTor, a protocol for reducing latency on the Tor network. ShorTor uses multi-hop overlay routing, a technique typically employed by content delivery networks, to influence the route Tor traffic takes across the internet.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Kyle Hogan , Sacha Servan-Schreiber , Zachary Newman , Ben Weintraub , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Srinivas Devadas

Anonymous networks have enabled secure and anonymous communication between the users and service providers while maintaining their anonymity and privacy. The hidden services in the networks are dynamic and continuously change their domains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Vasisht Duddu , Debasis Samanta , D Vijay Rao

The growth of the Internet of Things has amplified the need for secure data interactions in cloud-edge ecosystems, where sensitive information is constantly processed across various system layers. Intrusion detection systems are commonly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Soad Almabdy , Amjad Ullah

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

We introduce a new class of lower overhead tunnel that is resistant to traffic analysis. The tunnel opportunistically reduces the number of dummy packets transmitted during busy times when many flows are simultaneously active while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Saman Feghhi , Douglas J. Leith