You get PADDING, everybody gets PADDING! You get privacy? Evaluating practical QUIC website fingerprinting protections for the masses — mentioned by belter

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 10:29:34 GMT

"... We confirm previous claims that network-layer padding cannot provide good protection against powerful adversaries capable of observing all traffic traces. In contrast to prior work, we also demonstrate that such padding is ineffective even against adversaries with partial view of the traffic. Network-layer padding without application input is ineffective because it fails to hide information unique across different applications. We show that application-layer padding solutions need to be deployed by both first and third parties, and that they can only thwart traffic analysis in limited…

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You get PADDING, everybody gets PADDING! You get privacy? Evaluating practical QUIC website fingerprinting protections for the masses — HN submission

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 10:29:34 GMT

On the ineffectiveness of QUIC PADDING against website fingerprinting

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You get PADDING, everybody gets PADDING! You get privacy? Evaluating practical QUIC website fingerprinting protections for the masses · HackerPapers discussions

You get PADDING, everybody gets PADDING! You get privacy? Evaluating practical QUIC website fingerprinting protections for the masses — mentioned by belter

You get PADDING, everybody gets PADDING! You get privacy? Evaluating practical QUIC website fingerprinting protections for the masses — HN submission