Impact of replacing TCP by QUIC in Tor on website fingerprinting resistance

Privacy is a human right, yet, people’s behavior on the web is constantly tracked. Tor, an anonymity network, is an effective defence against tracking. However, Tor’s multiplexing of logically independent data streams into a single TCP connection causes issues. Tor with QUIC has been implemented as an alternative with better performance but it...

Android App Tracking: Investigating the feasibility of tracking user behavior on mobile phones by analyzing encrypted network traffic

The mobile phone has become an important part of people's lives and which apps are used says a lot about a person. Even though data is encrypted, meta-data of network traffic leaks private information about which apps are being used on mobile devices.Apps can be detected in network traffic using the network fingerprint of an app, which shows...