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Statistical identification of encrypted web browsing traffic
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
, 2002
"... Encryption is often proposed as a tool for protecting
the privacy of World Wide Web browsing. However,
encryption-particularly as typically implemented in, or
in concert with popular Web browsers-does not hide all
information about the encrypted plaintext. Specifically,
HTTP object count and sizes a ..."
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Encryption is often proposed as a tool for protecting
the privacy of World Wide Web browsing. However,
encryption-particularly as typically implemented in, or
in concert with popular Web browsers-does not hide all
information about the encrypted plaintext. Specifically,
HTTP object count and sizes are often revealed (or at
least incompletely concealed). We investigate the identifiability of World Wide Web traffic based on this unconcealed information in a large sample of Web pages,
and show that it suffices to identify a significant fraction of them quite reliably. We also suggest some possible countermeasures against the exposure of this kind
of information and experimentally evaluate their effiectiveness.

