YoVDO

K-Fingerprinting - A Robust Scalable Website Fingerprinting Technique

Offered By: USENIX via YouTube

Tags

USENIX Security Courses Cybersecurity Courses Network Security Courses Tor (The Onion Router) Courses Privacy Courses Performance Evaluation Courses

Course Description

Overview

Explore a conference talk on k-fingerprinting, a robust and scalable website fingerprinting technique presented at USENIX Security '16. Delve into the research by Jamie Hayes and George Danezis from University College London, which introduces a novel approach based on random decision forests. Learn how this technique outperforms current state-of-the-art attacks, even against website fingerprinting defenses, and its effectiveness in handling large amounts of noisy data. Discover the impressive accuracy rates achieved in identifying monitored hidden services and understand the varying vulnerability of different web resources to this attack. Gain insights into the methodology, data collection process, and limitations of k-fingerprinting, as well as its implications for encrypted and anonymized network connections.

Syllabus

Introduction
Contributions
Features
How does it work
Base Rate
Accuracy Metrics
How kfingerprinting works
Data collection
Accuracy
Alexa
Hidden Service
Limitations
Conclusion
Interview


Taught by

USENIX

Related Courses

An Introduction to Computer Networks
Stanford University via Independent
Computer Networks
University of Washington via Coursera
Computer Networking
Georgia Institute of Technology via Udacity
Cybersecurity and Its Ten Domains
University System of Georgia via Coursera
Model Building and Validation
AT&T via Udacity