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Fingerprinting Websites Using Traffic Analysis

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Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET 2002)

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I present a traffic analysis based vulnerability in Safe Web, an encrypting web proxy. This vulnerability allows someone monitoring the traffic of a Safe Web user to determine if the user is visiting certain websites. I also describe a successful implementation of the attack. Finally, I discuss methods for improving the attack and for defending against the attack.

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References

  1. Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography (New York: Wiley and Sons, 1996) 219.

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  1. The University of Texas at Austin, USA

    Andrew Hintz

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  1. Andrew Hintz
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  1. The Free Haven Project, 144 Lake St., Arlington, MA, 02474, USA

    Roger Dingledine

  2. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375, USA

    Paul Syverson

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Hintz, A. (2003). Fingerprinting Websites Using Traffic Analysis. In: Dingledine, R., Syverson, P. (eds) Privacy Enhancing Technologies. PET 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2482. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36467-6_13

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