Efficient Traffic Analysis Defenses for Low-Latency Anonymous Communications. KU Leuven
Website fingerprinting is a family of traffic analysis techniques that allows a local eavesdropper to infer which web pages a user visits over an encrypted channel. These techniques use machine learning classifiers to exploit features in the metadata of network traffic, such as the lengths and timing of network packets. Website fingerprinting has been shown to undermine the privacy provided by privacy-enhancing technologies, such as HTTPS, ...