The rise of website fingerprinting on Tor: Analysis on techniques and assumptions

MAIM Aminuddin, ZF Zaaba, A Samsudin, F Zaki… - Journal of Network and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tor is one of the most popular anonymity networks that allows Internet users to hide their
browsing activity. Hiding browsing activity is essential for Internet users to increase their …

Subverting website fingerprinting defenses with robust traffic representation

M Shen, K Ji, Z Gao, Q Li, L Zhu, K Xu - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
Anonymity networks, eg, Tor, are vulnerable to various website fingerprinting (WF) attacks,
which allows attackers to perceive user privacy on these networks. However, the defenses …

Website fingerprinting through the cache occupancy channel and its real world practicality

A Shusterman, Z Avraham, E Croitoru… - … on Dependable and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Website fingerprinting attacks use statistical analysis on network traffic to compromise user
privacy. The classical attack model used to evaluate website fingerprinting attacks assumes …

Sok: A critical evaluation of efficient website fingerprinting defenses

N Mathews, JK Holland, SE Oh… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent website fingerprinting attacks have been shown to achieve very high performance
against traffic through Tor. These attacks allow an adversary to deduce the website a Tor …

An anonymous IoT-based E-health monitoring system using blockchain technology

O Samuel, AB Omojo, SM Mohsin, P Tiwari… - IEEE Systems …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Things (IoT) has made it possible for health institutions to have remote
diagnosis, reliable, preventive, and real-time decision-making. However, the anonymity and …

Toward enhancing web privacy on HTTPS traffic: A novel SuperLearner attack model and an efficient defense approach with adversarial examples

M Abolfathi, S Inturi, F Banaei-Kashani, JH Jafarian - Computers & Security, 2024 - Elsevier
Web privacy-enhancing technologies have been grown to preserve the users' privacy
against sophisticated traffic analysis attacks aimed at inferring sensitive information. An …

GarliChain: A privacy preserving system for smart grid consumers using blockchain

O Samuel, N Javaid - International Journal of Energy Research, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper proposes a blockchain system, known as GarliChain, to solve the problems of
anonymity and privacy of consumers during energy trading in the smart grids. It is inspired …

A survey on deep learning for website fingerprinting attacks and defenses

P Liu, L He, Z Li - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The attacks and defenses on the information of which website pages are visited by users are
important research subjects in the field of privacy enhancing technologies, they are termed …

Few‐Shot Website Fingerprinting Attack with Data Augmentation

M Chen, Y Wang, Z Qin, X Zhu - Security and Communication …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This work introduces a novel data augmentation method for few‐shot website fingerprinting
(WF) attack where only a handful of training samples per website are available for deep …

Padding-only defenses add delay in Tor

E Witwer, JK Holland, N Hopper - Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Website fingerprinting is an attack that uses size and timing characteristics of encrypted
downloads to identify targeted websites. Since this can defeat the privacy goals of anonymity …