Inferring the source of encrypted HTTP connections

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 255-263

  Liberatore, Marc ^a   Levine, Brian Neil ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Low latency anonymity; Network forensics; Traffic analysis

Indexed keywords

ENCRYPTED STREAM; ENCRYPTED TRAFFIC; LOW-LATENCY ANONYMITY; NETWORK FORENSICS;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA STRUCTURES; INTERNET; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

HTTP;

EID: 34547350876     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1180405.1180437     Document Type: Conference Paper

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