Statistical identification of encrypted Web browsing traffic

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 19-30

  Sun, Qixiang ^a   Simon, D R ^b   Wang, Yi Min ^b   Russell, W ^b   Padmanabhan, V N ^b   Qiu, Lili ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromium; Cryptography; Privacy; Security

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DATA PRIVACY; HTTP; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

IDENTIFIABILITY; PLAINTEXT; SECURITY;

WEB BROWSERS;

EID: 84864253438     PISSN: 10816011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SECPRI.2002.1004359     Document Type: Conference Paper

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