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Title: Measuring Information Leakage in Website Fingerprinting Attacks and Defenses
Tor provides low-latency anonymous and uncensored network access against a local or network adversary. Due to the design choice to minimize traffic overhead (and increase the pool of potential users) Tor allows some information about the client's connections to leak. Attacks using (features extracted from) this information to infer the website a user visits are called Website Fingerprinting (WF) attacks. We develop a methodology and tools to measure the amount of leaked information about a website. We apply this tool to a comprehensive set of features extracted from a large set of websites and WF defense mechanisms, allowing us to make more fine-grained observations about WF attacks and defenses.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1815757
PAR ID:
10107895
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1977 to 1992
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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