Website Fingerprinting: Attacking Popular Privacy Enhancing Technologies with the Multinomial Naïve-Bayes Classifier

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-119198
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.11919

Herrmann, Dominik ; Wendolsky, Rolf ; Federrath, Hannes

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Abstract

Privacy enhancing technologies like OpenSSL, OpenVPN or Tor establish an encrypted tunnel that enables users to hide content and addresses of requested websites from external observers This protection is endangered by local traffic analysis attacks that allow an external, passive attacker between the PET system and the user to uncover the identity of the requested sites. However, existing ...